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title: Bro, who actually gave the dude the advice about the serpent feast,… — Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, who actually gave the dude the advice about the serpent feast, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 1 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

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Bro, who actually gave the dude the advice about the serpent feast, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** give, innit · **To what, where:** dude

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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/1801-pg641-part52/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t1:1
# text = Bro, who actually gave the dude the advice about the serpent feast, innit?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | the dude |  |  |  | Bro *vocative*; actually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dude=Recipient advice=Theme |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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A mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t1:o1:1
# text = A mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The wizard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t1:o2:1
# text = The wizard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The old hermit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t1:o3:1
# text = The old hermit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	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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Some crone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t1:o4:1
# text = Some crone
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	crone	crone	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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