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title: Bro, what did the grandfather devil want to throw his grandchild in? — Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the grandfather devil want to throw his grandchild in? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Test 12 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

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Bro, what did the grandfather devil want to throw his grandchild in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do, want, throw · **To what, where:** grandfather devil, grandchild

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 488 «Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a cursed son, and a soldier who never washes end in devils outwitted by devils.» 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/488-pg22373-part80/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t12:1
# text = Bro, what did the grandfather devil want to throw his grandchild in?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the grandfather devil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | Bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bro *not said here* | Bro's grandchild |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Theme |

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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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a lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t12:o1:1
# text = a lake
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dungeon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t12:o2:1
# text = a dungeon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dungeon	dungeon	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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a snowdrift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t12:o3:1
# text = a snowdrift
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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boiling pitch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t12:o4:1
# text = boiling pitch
1	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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