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title: Bro, what did Jack lose in the brook, like his wages? — English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Jack lose in the brook, like his wages? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

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Bro, what did Jack lose in the brook, like his wages?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** brook

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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/1965-pg7439-part24/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t3:1
# text = Bro, what did Jack lose in the brook, like his wages?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · do-support | Jack |  |  | the brook |  | like Jack's wages; Bro *vocative* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a penny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t3:o1:1
# text = a penny
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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his wages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t3:o2:1
# text = his wages
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a pie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t3:o3:1
# text = a pie
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pie	pie	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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a cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1965-pg7439-part24:t3:o4:1
# text = a cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	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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