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title: lol the robbers got wrecked with a stick, no cap — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose,… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol the robbers got wrecked with a stick, no cap Test 2 · ★ of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

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lol the robbers got wrecked with a stick, no cap

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** wreck · **To what, where:** robbers

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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/773-pg2591-part49/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:t2:1
# text = lol the robbers got wrecked with a stick, no cap
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | past · passive |  | the robbers |  |  |  | with a stick and no cap | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stick=Instrument |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the hero whacked em good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:t2:o1:1
# text = yeah, the hero whacked em good
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	em	em	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past | the hero |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the hero beat em up proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:t2:o2:1
# text = yeah, the hero beat em up proper
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat up** | present | the hero | em *= they* |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the hero beat em all up with his stick, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:t2:o3:1
# text = yeah, the hero beat em all up with his stick, proper
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat up** | past | the hero | em *= they* |  |  |  | with hero's stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stick=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the robbers got away and the hero got wrecked by them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:773-pg2591-part49:t2:o4:1
# text = nah, the robbers got away and the hero got wrecked by them
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** | past | the robbers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wreck** | past · passive | robbers *= robber* | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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