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title: Serious question, what did the girls use to brush off the bear? — Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Serious question, what did the girls use to brush off the bear? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

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Serious question, what did the girls use to brush off the bear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** use, brush off · **To what, where:** Serious question, bear

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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/788-pg2591-part64/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t5:1
# text = Serious question, what did the girls use to brush off the bear?
1	Serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · do-support | the girls | Serious question |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **brush off** | to-infinitive | the girls *not said here* | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bear=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A broom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t5:o1:1
# text = A broom
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A big cloth and a bucket of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t5:o2:1
# text = A big cloth and a bucket of water
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t5:o3:1
# text = A rag
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A soft wooden hairbrush from the cupboard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t5:o4:1
# text = A soft wooden hairbrush from the cupboard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hairbrush	hairbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cupboard	cupboard	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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