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title: Bruv, what did Curdken rat out to the king? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did Curdken rat out to the king? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

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Bruv, what did Curdken rat out to the king?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do out · **To what, where:** Curdken rat

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» 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/737-pg2591-part13/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t9:1
# text = Bruv, what did Curdken rat out to the king?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do out** | past |  | Curdken rat |  |  |  | to the king; Bruv *vocative*; out *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Eventuality |

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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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the girl ignored the old king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t9:o1:1
# text = the girl ignored the old king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | the girl | the old king |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the girl chats to the head of a talking horse and tells it secrets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t9:o2:1
# text = the girl chats to the head of a talking horse and tells it secrets
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the girl chats to the head of a talking horse | secrets | horse |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient secret=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the girl chats to a horse head nailed on the dark gate each morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t9:o3:1
# text = the girl chats to a horse head nailed on the dark gate each morning
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | participle | the girl chats to a horse head |  |  |  | morning | on the dark gate | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on gate=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the girl chats to a horse head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t9:o4:1
# text = the girl chats to a horse head
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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