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title: How did the rich brother get his gift to the king, bruv? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the rich brother get his gift to the king, bruv? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

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How did the rich brother get his gift to the king, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rich brother, brother · **What happens:** get, gift · **To what, where:** gift

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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/765-pg2591-part41/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t11:1
# text = How did the rich brother get his gift to the king, bruv?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | the rich brother | brother's gift |  |  |  | to the king and bruv | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gift=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gift** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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silver and cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t11:o1:1
# text = silver and cows
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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gold and horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t11:o2:1
# text = gold and horses
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a great pile of gold and many fine horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t11:o3:1
# text = a great pile of gold and many fine horses
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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gold and fine horses from the king's land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t11:o4:1
# text = gold and fine horses from the king's land
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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