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title: Who was the stepmum gonna flog, bro? — pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the stepmum gonna flog, bro? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

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Who was the stepmum gonna flog, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stepmum · **What happens:** be, flog · **To what, where:** stepmum

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1752-pg641-part3/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t4:1
# text = Who was the stepmum gonna flog, bro?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	flog	flog	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the stepmum and bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flog** | infinitive | the stepmum and bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the old man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t4:o1:1
# text = the old man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Kisika

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t4:o2:1
# text = Kisika
1	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the clay figure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t4:o3:1
# text = the clay figure
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1752-pg641-part3:t4:o4:1
# text = the lady
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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