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title: So what was the rhyme's point, bruv? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what was the rhyme's point, bruv? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

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So what was the rhyme's point, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** point

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children 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/2020-pg7885-part39/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t11:1
# text = So what was the rhyme's point, bruv?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the rhyme's point |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Rye can't grow from eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t11:o1:1
# text = Rye can't grow from eggs
1	Rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | can | Rye |  |  |  |  | from eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An eggshell can't make a dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t11:o2:1
# text = An eggshell can't make a dinner
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | can | a eggshell | a dinner |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dinner=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A dinner can't grow from oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t11:o3:1
# text = A dinner can't grow from oak
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | can | a dinner |  |  |  |  | from oak | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from oak=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An eggshell can't make a dinner, so the twins were giving the goblins away

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t11:o4:1
# text = An eggshell can't make a dinner, so the twins were giving the goblins away
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | can | a eggshell | a dinner |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dinner=Product |
| 2 | **give away** | past · progressive | the twins | the goblins |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent goblin=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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