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title: Bruh, so the old emperor had no son, just three girls? — pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, so the old emperor had no son, just three girls? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1805 «pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess becomes a duck, and a girl rides off to serve as a son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 2 · ★ · pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bruh, so the old emperor had no son, just three girls?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old emperor · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** son

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1805 «pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess becomes a duck, and a girl rides off to serve as a son» 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/1805-pg641-part56/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1805-pg641-part56:t2:1
# text = Bruh, so the old emperor had no son, just three girls?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the old emperor | no son and three girls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, three daughters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1805-pg641-part56:t2:o1:1
# text = Yeah, three daughters
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he had two sons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1805-pg641-part56:t2:o2:1
# text = Nah, he had two sons
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | two sons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, three daughters, so nobody could go fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1805-pg641-part56:t2:o3:1
# text = Yeah, three daughters, so nobody could go fight
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | could | nobody | fight |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fight=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, two sons and one daughter, so he sent them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1805-pg641-part56:t2:o4:1
# text = Nope, two sons and one daughter, so he sent them
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | two sons and one daughter | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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