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title: Lol, what did the servants do after they said congrats? — Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the servants do after they said congrats? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

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Lol, what did the servants do after they said congrats?

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

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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/1940-pg7277-part77/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t10:1
# text = Lol, what did the servants do after they said congrats?
1	Lol	lol	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	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	congrats	congrat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the servants |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | servants *= servant* | congrats |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent congrat=Topic |

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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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They went back to their chores

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t10:o1:1
# text = They went back to their chores
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | They |  |  |  |  | to their chores *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chore=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They cheered again and then went off to find their dinner and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t10:o2:1
# text = They cheered again and then went off to find their dinner and sleep
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheer** | past | They |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go off** | past | They *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | their dinner and sleep |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They scattered off to their jobs around the castle grounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t10:o3:1
# text = They scattered off to their jobs around the castle grounds
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter off** | past | They |  |  | the castle grounds |  | to their jobs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around grounds=Destination |
| 2 | **job** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They scattered off to their jobs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1940-pg7277-part77:t10:o4:1
# text = They scattered off to their jobs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter off** | past | They |  |  |  |  | to their jobs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **job** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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