---
title: Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes? Test 2 · ★ 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 ea
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2020-pg7885-part39/t2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2020-pg7885-part39/) / t2

# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** Llanidloes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t2:1
# text = Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Llanidloes	llanidloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | Bruv |  |  | Llanidloes |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to llanidloe=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because her neighbour sent for her and she needed the Wise Man's advice on the babies

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t2:o1:1
# text = Because her neighbour sent for her and she needed the Wise Man's advice on the babies
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | her neighbour |  |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | past | neighbour | the Wise Man's advice |  | the babies |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To see the Wise Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t2:o2:1
# text = To see the Wise Man
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the Wise Man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For a cure for twins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t2:o3:1
# text = For a cure for twins
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To borrow a pot to boil some soup for the reapers in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2020-pg7885-part39:t2:o4:1
# text = To borrow a pot to boil some soup for the reapers in the field
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reapers	reaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | to-infinitive |  | a pot |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | to-infinitive |  | some soup |  |  |  | for the reapers; in the field | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soup=Patient in field=Instrument |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg…, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2020-pg7885-part39/t1/)
- next →: [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Egg…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2020-pg7885-part39/t3/)
- ↑ back to [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2020-pg7885-part39/)