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title: bro why did Niels lug his gun everywhere lol? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro why did Niels lug his gun everywhere lol? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro why did Niels lug his gun everywhere lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Niels · **What happens:** lug · **To what, where:** gun

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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/709-pg2435-part49/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t2:1
# text = bro why did Niels lug his gun everywhere lol?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lug	lug	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lug** | past · do-support | Niels | Niels's gun |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; everywhere *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz he wanted to show it off to every person they met on the whole road

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t2:o1:1
# text = cuz he wanted to show it off to every person they met on the whole road
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | cuz |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **show off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cuz *not said here* | it | every person |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to person=Recipient |
| 3 | **meet** | past | they | every person *not said here* |  | the whole road |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz he couldn't be happy without it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t2:o2:1
# text = cuz he couldn't be happy without it
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | could | cuz |  |  |  |  | without it; happy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz wolves are everywhere out here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t2:o3:1
# text = cuz wolves are everywhere out here
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | cuz wolves |  |  | here |  | everywhere, out *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz the king said every traveler has to carry one and he'd get fined otherwise, so yeah

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t2:o4:1
# text = cuz the king said every traveler has to carry one and he'd get fined otherwise, so yeah
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	fined	fine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | every traveler |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | every traveler *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **fine** | would · passive |  | traveler |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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