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title: Bro, was that bread like rock or what? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of My… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, was that bread like rock or what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1993 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows» 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maid…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bro, was that bread like rock or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bread

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1993 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai: the lake-maiden leaves after three blows» 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/1993-pg7885-part12/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1993-pg7885-part12:t3:1
# text = Bro, was that bread like rock or what?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | bread |  |  |  | like rock; Bro *vocative* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1993-pg7885-part12:t3:o1:1
# text = Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv, she said it was rubbish and wouldn't eat it

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1993-pg7885-part12:t3:o2:1
# text = Hard-baked, like a brick, bruv, she said it was rubbish and wouldn't eat it
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a brick and bruv | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | bruv | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | would | she *not said here* | bruv |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, mate, it was rock hard, proper stale, she sang about it and laughed loud

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1993-pg7885-part12:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, mate, it was rock hard, proper stale, she sang about it and laughed loud
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stale	stale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | rock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | mate and rock |  |  |  |  | about rock | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | mate and rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rock hard, like a stone, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1993-pg7885-part12:t3:o4:1
# text = Rock hard, like a stone, bruv
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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