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title: What did the Carl call Cael, like a pet name? — Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Carl call Cael, like a pet name? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

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What did the Carl call Cael, like a pet name?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Carl · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Cael · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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/1057-pg2892-part25/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t11:1
# text = What did the Carl call Cael, like a pet name?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the Carl | Cael |  |  |  | like a pet name | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme cael=Result |

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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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Dear son, my boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t11:o1:1
# text = Dear son, my boy
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dear friend, my brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t11:o2:1
# text = Dear friend, my brother
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Dear heart, my darling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t11:o3:1
# text = Dear heart, my darling
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dear heart, my darling, my own true son of the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1057-pg2892-part25:t11:o4:1
# text = Dear heart, my darling, my own true son of the hills
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	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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