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title: who dug the box back up, bro? — Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: who dug the box back up, bro? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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 ri
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# Test 9 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

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who dug the box back up, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** dig · **To what, where:** box

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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/1844-pg7128-part28/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1844-pg7128-part28:t9:1
# text = who dug the box back up, bro?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past |  | the box |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent box=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Shankar the dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1844-pg7128-part28:t9:o1:1
# text = Shankar the dog
1	Shankar	Shankar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cowherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1844-pg7128-part28:t9:o2:1
# text = the cowherd
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1844-pg7128-part28:t9:o3:1
# text = the nurse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	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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the King's dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1844-pg7128-part28:t9:o4:1
# text = the King's dog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dog	dog	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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**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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