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title: Mate, what did the little lad build out of wood bits? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the little lad build out of wood bits? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, what did the little lad build out of wood bits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little lad · **What happens:** build out · **To what, where:** Mate, wood bits

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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/751-pg2591-part27/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t2:1
# text = Mate, what did the little lad build out of wood bits?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build out** | past · do-support | the little lad | Mate |  | wood bits |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary bit=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little feeding bin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t2:o1:1
# text = a little feeding bin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a proper long trough for the whole family to eat from

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t2:o2:1
# text = a proper long trough for the whole family to eat from
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a proper wooden bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t2:o3:1
# text = a proper wooden bowl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a proper little trough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t2:o4:1
# text = a proper little trough
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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