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title: Gas, where did the coracle take them? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gas, where did the coracle take them? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gas, where did the coracle take them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coracle · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t11:1
# text = Gas, where did the coracle take them?
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coracle	coracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | the coracle | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 {#o1}

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across the sea to the Shi' hills, where the stags fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t11:o1:1
# text = across the sea to the Shi' hills, where the stags fight
1	across	across	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | the stags |  |  | the sea to the Shi's hills |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the western isles and then back home to Sasana

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t11:o2:1
# text = the western isles and then back home to Sasana
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sasana	Sasana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ireland, to Ben Edair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t11:o3:1
# text = Ireland, to Ben Edair
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Edair	Edair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to the coast of Moville

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t11:o4:1
# text = to the coast of Moville
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Moville	Moville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	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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