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title: the peewit kept yelling you thief, why tho? — Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: the peewit kept yelling you thief, why tho? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 949 «Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wandering Marie is lifted onto a ship» 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 w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wanderin…

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the peewit kept yelling you thief, why tho?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** peewit · **What happens:** keep, yell · **To what, where:** you

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 949 «Andersen's Tales, Marie Grubbe, part 160: a sick, wandering Marie is lifted onto a ship» 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/949-pg27200-part160/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:949-pg27200-part160:t8:1
# text = the peewit kept yelling you thief, why tho?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peewit	peewit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
9	tho	tho	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the peewit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | the peewit *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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she robbed birds' nests at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:949-pg27200-part160:t8:o1:1
# text = she robbed birds' nests at home
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	robbed	rob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rob** | past | she | birds's nests |  | home |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |

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

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she took eggs from trees as a girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:949-pg27200-part160:t8:o2:1
# text = she took eggs from trees as a girl
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | she | eggs |  | trees |  | as a girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she stole bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:949-pg27200-part160:t8:o3:1
# text = she stole bread
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | she | bread |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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she stole eggs from the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:949-pg27200-part160:t8:o4:1
# text = she stole eggs from the farm
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | she | eggs |  | the farm |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from farm=Source |

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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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