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title: bruh, what did the fish tell him to do with the scale? — Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwi… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what did the fish tell him to do with the scale? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

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bruh, what did the fish tell him to do with the scale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** do, tell · **To what, where:** him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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/1810-pg641-part61/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1810-pg641-part61:t6:1
# text = bruh, what did the fish tell him to do with the scale?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the fish |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the scale | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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hide it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1810-pg641-part61:t6:o1:1
# text = hide it
1	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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toss it in the pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1810-pg641-part61:t6:o2:1
# text = toss it in the pond
1	toss	toss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the pond |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pond=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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burn it, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1810-pg641-part61:t6:o3:1
# text = burn it, bro
1	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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chuck it in the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1810-pg641-part61:t6:o4:1
# text = chuck it in the fire
1	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the fire |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination |

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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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