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title: bruh how did tiidu make a stack of cash — Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh how did tiidu make a stack of cash Test 12 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

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bruh how did tiidu make a stack of cash

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tiidu · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** stack

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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/677-pg2435-part17/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t12:1
# text = bruh how did tiidu make a stack of cash
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	tiidu	tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | tiidu | a stack of cash |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stack=Product |

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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}

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he begged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = he begged
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he sold his flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = he sold his flute
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | he | his flute |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he played at weddings nightly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t12:o3:1
# text = he played at weddings nightly
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | he |  |  | weddings |  | nightly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
people paid him for playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = people paid him for playing
1	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | people | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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