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title: Oi, what's the bit at the end about, like a moral? — Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what's the bit at the end about, like a moral? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 12 · ★ · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

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Oi, what's the bit at the end about, like a moral?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» 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/1061-pg2892-part29/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t12:1
# text = Oi, what's the bit at the end about, like a moral?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Be brave, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t12:o1:1
# text = Be brave, mate
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |

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

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Life is a give-and-take world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t12:o2:1
# text = Life is a give-and-take world
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	give	give	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Life | a give |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | a give *not said here* | world |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trust your mates always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t12:o3:1
# text = Trust your mates always
1	Trust	trust	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* | your mates |  |  |  | always *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fight for what is right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1061-pg2892-part29:t12:o4:1
# text = Fight for what is right
1	Fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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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