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title: Bro, what did Stana say her shirt would stop? — Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Stana say her shirt would stop? Test 10 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 10 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

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Bro, what did Stana say her shirt would stop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Stana, Bro · **What happens:** say, stop · **To what, where:** Bro · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t10:1
# text = Bro, what did Stana say her shirt would stop?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	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	Stana	Stana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Stana | Bro |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme shirt=Manner |
| 2 | **stop** | would | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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Fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t10:o1:1
# text = Fire
1	Fire	fire	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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Arrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t10:o2:1
# text = Arrows
1	Arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Dragons, water, and fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t10:o3:1
# text = Dragons, water, and fire
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Wolves, storms and swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t10:o4:1
# text = Wolves, storms and swords
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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