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title: bro, what did everybody have to hold on to? — Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rot… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did everybody have to hold on to? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

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bro, what did everybody have to hold on to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** have, hold on

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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/639-pg23661-part7/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t4:1
# text = bro, what did everybody have to hold on to?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | bro |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold on** | to-infinitive | bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t4:o1:1
# text = each other
1	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	fixed	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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their hats and bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t4:o2:1
# text = their hats and bags
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the rock and rails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t4:o3:1
# text = the rock and rails
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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themselves, tight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:639-pg23661-part7:t4:o4:1
# text = themselves, tight
1	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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