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title: Bro, why did the wife jump in the ice-hole? — Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why did the wife jump in the ice-hole? Test 3 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 3 · ★ · Devil Tales, The Unwashed Soldier: a hunter's dog, a curse…

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Bro, why did the wife jump in the ice-hole?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** wife jump, ice hole

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t3:1
# text = Bro, why did the wife jump in the ice-hole?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the wife jump |  | the ice hole |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |

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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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to grab the horse, dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t3:o1:1
# text = to grab the horse, dude
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	grab	grab	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | to-infinitive |  | the horse and dude |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause she was bored, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t3:o2:1
# text = cause she was bored, lol
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | cause |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to find the priest, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t3:o3:1
# text = to find the priest, bro
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the priest and bro |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to save her hubby, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:488-pg22373-part80:t3:o4:1
# text = to save her hubby, no cap
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hubby	hubby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | her hubby |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hubby=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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