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title: Bro, what did the shepherd keep as proof, innit? — Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the shepherd keep as proof, innit? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Test 7 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

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Bro, what did the shepherd keep as proof, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, keep, innit · **To what, where:** shepherd

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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/1941-pg7277-part78/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the shepherd keep as proof, innit?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  | as proof | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | Bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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two dragon teeth in his pocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t7:o1:1
# text = two dragon teeth in his pocket
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two dragon claws in his bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t7:o2:1
# text = two dragon claws in his bag
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two teeth, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t7:o3:1
# text = two teeth, bro
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tooth in his pocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1941-pg7277-part78:t7:o4:1
# text = a tooth in his pocket
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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