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title: Where'd the robber's mum go? — Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant · tree and pragmatics
description: Where'd the robber's mum go? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Where'd the robber's mum go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** go

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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/685-pg2435-part25/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t9:1
# text = Where'd the robber's mum go?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the robber's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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Back to her dad's place, way over the mountains, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t9:o1:1
# text = Back to her dad's place, way over the mountains, bro
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Off to her uncle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t9:o2:1
# text = Off to her uncle
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Back to her dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t9:o3:1
# text = Back to her dad
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Back to her dad, far across the big sea, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:685-pg2435-part25:t9:o4:1
# text = Back to her dad, far across the big sea, like
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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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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