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title: Hold on, who sent Becuma packing? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold on, who sent Becuma packing? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

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Hold on, who sent Becuma packing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold on, send · **To what, where:** Becuma packing

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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/1067-pg2892-part35/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t10:1
# text = Hold on, who sent Becuma packing?
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	packing	packing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | Becuma packing |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packing=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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Delvcaem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t10:o1:1
# text = Delvcaem
1	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the abbot of Moville, who was angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t10:o2:1
# text = the abbot of Moville, who was angry
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	abbot	abbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Moville	Moville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the abbot of Moville |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Becuma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t10:o3:1
# text = Becuma
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	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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Cairide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t10:o4:1
# text = Cairide
1	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	NNP	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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