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title: Why do the villagers hand over a girl every year? — pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do the villagers hand over a girl every year? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1756 «pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a maiden from a cat monster with a borrowed dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a m…

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Why do the villagers hand over a girl every year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** villagers · **What happens:** hand

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1756 «pg641, Schippeitaro, what happens: a brave youth frees a maiden from a cat monster with a borrowed dog» 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/1756-pg641-part7/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1756-pg641-part7:t4:1
# text = Why do the villagers hand over a girl every year?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hand	hand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | present · do-support | the villagers |  |  |  | year | over a girl | vn send-11.1-1 «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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Cause the girls keep asking to leave home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1756-pg641-part7:t4:o1:1
# text = Cause the girls keep asking to leave home
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the Cause girls |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Cause girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Cause girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Cause the mountain monster wants her for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1756-pg641-part7:t4:o2:1
# text = Cause the mountain monster wants her for dinner
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the mountain monster | her *= she* |  |  |  | for dinner | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cause the prince makes them pay a tax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1756-pg641-part7:t4:o3:1
# text = Cause the prince makes them pay a tax
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Cause prince | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | a tax |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cause the priest says it brings good crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1756-pg641-part7:t4:o4:1
# text = Cause the priest says it brings good crops
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the priest |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | present | priest | good crops |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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