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title: Who's Duv Laca anyway, like? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's Duv Laca anyway, like? Test 7 · ★ 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 the q
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# Test 7 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

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Who's Duv Laca anyway, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Duv

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t7:1
# text = Who's Duv Laca anyway, like?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Duv |  |  |  |  | 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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his old love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t7:o1:1
# text = his old love
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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a lady Mongan speaks of with longing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = a lady Mongan speaks of with longing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a lady |  |  |  |  | of longing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a lady who sailed to Ireland with Delvcaem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = a lady who sailed to Ireland with Delvcaem
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Delvcaem	Delvcaem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | a lady |  |  | Ireland |  | with Delvcaem | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to ireland=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a woman Mongan married at Tara

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1067-pg2892-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = a woman Mongan married at Tara
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | a woman |  |  | Tara |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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