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title: Mate, why did the first brother bottle it and head home? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Childr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, why did the first brother bottle it and head home? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

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Mate, why did the first brother bottle it and head home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, bottle

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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/1931-pg7277-part68/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t5:1
# text = Mate, why did the first brother bottle it and head home?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
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	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bottle** |  | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the folk at the inn were taking the mick out of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t5:o1:1
# text = the folk at the inn were taking the mick out of them
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mick	mick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · progressive | the folk at the inn | the mick |  |  |  | out them *= they* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mick=Theme out they=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the people at the inn were laughing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t5:o2:1
# text = the people at the inn were laughing
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past · progressive | the people at the inn |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the locals at the bar were mocking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t5:o3:1
# text = the locals at the bar were mocking
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	locals	local	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | past · progressive | the locals at the bar |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the folk at the inn were taking the mick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t5:o4:1
# text = the folk at the inn were taking the mick
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mick	mick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · progressive | the folk at the inn | the mick |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mick=Theme |

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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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