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title: so Inge trod on the bread to keep her shoes clean, right? — Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: so Inge trod on the bread to keep her shoes clean, right? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 12 · ★ · Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three frien…

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so Inge trod on the bread to keep her shoes clean, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Inge · **What happens:** tread, keep · **To what, where:** bread, shoes

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 831 «Stories of Many Lands, The Bond of Friendship: three friends swear to be brothers and sister for life, and a secret love is confessed» 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/831-pg27200-part42/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:831-pg27200-part42:t12:1
# text = so Inge trod on the bread to keep her shoes clean, right?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Inge	Inge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | past | Inge |  |  | the bread |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bread=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Inge *not said here* | Inge's shoes |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nope, she was humble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:831-pg27200-part42:t12:o1:1
# text = Nope, she was humble
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | humble *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she was clumsy and sorry, though

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:831-pg27200-part42:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she was clumsy and sorry, though
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	though	though	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | clumsy, though *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, she stepped on it by accident

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:831-pg27200-part42:t12:o3:1
# text = Nah, she stepped on it by accident
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | she |  |  | it |  | by accident | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she was proud and had bad vibes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:831-pg27200-part42:t12:o4:1
# text = Yeah, she was proud and had bad vibes
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	vibes	vibe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | she *not said here* | bad vibes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibe=Patient |

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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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