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title: Wasn't Cael dead gone when the Carl kicked his boat, boy? — Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the D… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasn't Cael dead gone when the Carl kicked his boat, boy? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1059 «Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of the Iron is beaten and the Carl is revealed as a god» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of th…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wasn't Cael dead gone when the Carl kicked his boat, boy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cael, Carl · **What happens:** not be, kick · **To what, where:** boat

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1059 «Old Celtic Romances, The Carl of the Drab Coat: Cael of the Iron is beaten and the Carl is revealed as a god» 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/1059-pg2892-part27/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1059-pg2892-part27:t3:1
# text = Wasn't Cael dead gone when the Carl kicked his boat, boy?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	Cael	Cael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Cael |  |  |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick** | past | the Carl | Carl's boat and boy |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, seven leagues.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1059-pg2892-part27:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, seven leagues.
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, out to sea.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1059-pg2892-part27:t3:o2:1
# text = Nah, out to sea.
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the Carl drowned him in the bay, boy, dead sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1059-pg2892-part27:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the Carl drowned him in the bay, boy, dead sure
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | past | the Carl | him *= he* |  | the bay and boy |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the Carl kicked it seven leagues out to sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1059-pg2892-part27:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, the Carl kicked it seven leagues out to sea
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Carl	Carl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leagues	league	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past | the Carl | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **league out** | present | seven |  |  |  |  | to sea | tree rules |

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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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