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title: bro, what does bridle-wise mean, is it like being wicked at tricks? — The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servant… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what does bridle-wise mean, is it like being wicked at tricks? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

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bro, what does bridle-wise mean, is it like being wicked at tricks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mean · **What happens:** bridle, be · **To what, where:** bro, tricks

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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/630-pg236-part31/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t2:1
# text = bro, what does bridle-wise mean, is it like being wicked at tricks?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bridle	bridle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mean	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bridle** | present · do-support |  | bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | mean |  |  | tricks |  | bro *vocative*; wicked *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fast trick with reins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t2:o1:1
# text = a fast trick with reins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kicking back when the bit hurts your mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t2:o2:1
# text = kicking back when the bit hurts your mouth
1	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | the bit | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouth=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
spinning round fast when the rein presses your neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t2:o3:1
# text = spinning round fast when the rein presses your neck
1	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast, round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | present | the rein | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
being wicked at tricks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t2:o4:1
# text = being wicked at tricks
1	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | tricks |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |

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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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