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title: Mate, did Duv Laca say honour beats life? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did Duv Laca say honour beats life? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

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Mate, did Duv Laca say honour beats life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, Duv, honour · **What happens:** do, say, beat · **To what, where:** life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for 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/1071-pg2892-part39/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t8:1
# text = Mate, did Duv Laca say honour beats life?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Duv	Duv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Laca	Laca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Duv |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **beat** | present | honour | life |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location life=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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Nah, life beats honour every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t8:o1:1
# text = Nah, life beats honour every time
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	honour	honour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | present | life beats |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, honour's grand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, honour's grand
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, honour's worth more than gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, honour's worth more than gold
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, honour is longer than life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, honour is longer than life
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | honour |  |  |  |  | than life; long *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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