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title: Yo, what did the harpers end up doing to each other? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Begg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the harpers end up doing to each other? Test 9 · ★ 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 w
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…

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Yo, what did the harpers end up doing to each other?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** harpers · **What happens:** do, end up

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t9:1
# text = Yo, what did the harpers end up doing to each other?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	harpers	harper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obl	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **end up** | present | the harpers |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to each | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Cracking skulls and smashing harps, bruv, right across the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t9:o1:1
# text = Cracking skulls and smashing harps, bruv, right across the floor
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | gerund |  | skulls |  | the floor |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme |
| 2 | **smash** | gerund |  | harps and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cracking skulls, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t9:o2:1
# text = Cracking skulls, bruv
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cracking each other's skulls, bruv, till the hall went quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t9:o3:1
# text = Cracking each other's skulls, bruv, till the hall went quiet
1	Cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | gerund |  | each other's skulls and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the hall |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Playing tunes, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t9:o4:1
# text = Playing tunes, bruv
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | tunes and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |

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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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