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title: Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what? — English Fairy Tales, The Children in t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

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Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ruffian · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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/252-pg14241-part19/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t7:1
# text = Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ruffian	ruffian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · do-support | the ruffian | them *= they* |  |  |  | with any grub | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme what=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He said he'd bring bread back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t7:o1:1
# text = He said he'd bring bread back
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring back** | would | he | bread |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t7:o2:1
# text = Just water
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He promised cake and milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t7:o3:1
# text = He promised cake and milk
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | He | cake and milk |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:252-pg14241-part19:t7:o4:1
# text = No, nothing
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	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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