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title: Bruh, how did the beggar get the ladder up? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Begg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, how did the beggar get the ladder up? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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 4 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

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Bruh, how did the beggar get the ladder up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, get up · **To what, where:** beggar, ladder

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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/2006-pg7885-part25/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t4:1
# text = Bruh, how did the beggar get the ladder up?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the beggar |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get up** | present |  | the ladder |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ladder=Stimulus |

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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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Chucked the silk, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t4:o1:1
# text = Chucked the silk, mate
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Flung the wool, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t4:o2:1
# text = Flung the wool, fam
1	Flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past |  | the wool and fam |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Climbed it, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t4:o3:1
# text = Climbed it, bruv
1	Climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past |  | it |  |  |  | bruv *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Tossed the rope, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t4:o4:1
# text = Tossed the rope, mate
1	Tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | the rope and mate |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |

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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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