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title: What object does the second cleric transport upon his back? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object does the second cleric transport upon his back? Exam question 3 of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 3 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

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What object does the second cleric transport upon his back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** second cleric transport

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1072-pg2892-part40/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:e3:1
# text = What object does the second cleric transport upon his back?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	cleric	cleric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what object | the second cleric transport |  |  |  | upon object's back | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transport=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a load

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:e3:o1:1
# text = a load
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:e3:o2:1
# text = a book
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:e3:o3:1
# text = bag
1	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	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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box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:e3:o4:1
# text = box
1	box	box	NOUN	NN	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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