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title: Bro, what did he buy in town, like for real? — Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did he buy in town, like for real? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Bro, what did he buy in town, like for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** town

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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/1775-pg641-part26/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t8:1
# text = Bro, what did he buy in town, like for real?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · do-support | he |  |  | town |  | Bro *vocative* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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A live pike and a goat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t8:o1:1
# text = A live pike and a goat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A live pike and a hare, and also a whole sack of grain from the stall

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t8:o2:1
# text = A live pike and a hare, and also a whole sack of grain from the stall
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A live pike and a hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t8:o3:1
# text = A live pike and a hare
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A large live pike and a hare, plus some bread for the trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t8:o4:1
# text = A large live pike and a hare, plus some bread for the trip
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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

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