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title: Ngl, what did he sniff to stop catching it? — Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did he sniff to stop catching it? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

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Ngl, what did he sniff to stop catching it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** sniff, stop, catch · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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/950-pg27200-part161/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t6:1
# text = Ngl, what did he sniff to stop catching it?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sniff** | past · do-support | Ngl |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Ngl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | Ngl *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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Herbal salve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t6:o1:1
# text = Herbal salve
1	Herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Strong spirits mixed with garlic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t6:o2:1
# text = Strong spirits mixed with garlic
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  | Strong spirits *not said here* |  |  |  | with garlic | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with garlic=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tar and smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t6:o3:1
# text = Tar and smoke
1	Tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Strong spirits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:t6:o4:1
# text = Strong spirits
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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