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title: Bro, what's a girdle even? — Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the fro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what's a girdle even? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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 wro
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# Test 14 · ★ · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

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Bro, what's a girdle even?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** girdle

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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/892-pg27200-part103/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:t14:1
# text = Bro, what's a girdle even?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bro | a girdle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A hat for the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:t14:o1:1
# text = A hat for the head
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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A belt round the waist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:t14:o2:1
# text = A belt round the waist
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cloak for the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:t14:o3:1
# text = A cloak for the back
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A sock for the foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:892-pg27200-part103:t14:o4:1
# text = A sock for the foot
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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