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title: Oi, which bit of the grub did the robber-girl say she'd keep? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, which bit of the grub did the robber-girl say she'd keep? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

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Oi, which bit of the grub did the robber-girl say she'd keep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oi, robber girl, girl · **What happens:** do, say, keep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» 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/984-pg27200-part195/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t14:1
# text = Oi, which bit of the grub did the robber-girl say she'd keep?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Oi |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the robber girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | would | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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her shawl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t14:o1:1
# text = her shawl
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shawl	shawl	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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her muff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t14:o2:1
# text = her muff
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	muff	muff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t14:o3:1
# text = a hat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	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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gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t14:o4:1
# text = gold
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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