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title: Lol, who did the magicians say Becuma really was? — Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, who did the magicians say Becuma really was? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

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Lol, who did the magicians say Becuma really was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** magicians, Becuma · **What happens:** do, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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/1063-pg2892-part31/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t9:1
# text = Lol, who did the magicians say Becuma really was?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the magicians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | Becuma |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Becuma of the White Skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t9:o1:1
# text = Becuma of the White Skin
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A goddess of the Otherworld named Becuma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t9:o2:1
# text = A goddess of the Otherworld named Becuma
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Otherworld	otherworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | the Otherworld *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Becuma of the White Skin, a goddess from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t9:o3:1
# text = Becuma of the White Skin, a goddess from the sea
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Skin	Skin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Becuma of the Fair Hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1063-pg2892-part31:t9:o4:1
# text = Becuma of the Fair Hair
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	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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