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title: Bruv, what did the girl say she'd rather have? — Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the girl say she'd rather have? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

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Bruv, what did the girl say she'd rather have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** do, say, have · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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/2034-pg902-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what did the girl say she'd rather have?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	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	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | would | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Real jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = Real jewels
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gold rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = Gold rings
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2034-pg902-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = Roses
1	Roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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