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title: what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude? Test 10 · ★ 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 each
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# Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

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what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** da'v · **What happens:** mac, call · **To what, where:** nosey stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t10:1
# text = what did mac an da'v call the nosey stranger, proper rude?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mac	mac	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	da'v	da'v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nosey	nosey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mac** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | a da'v | the nosey stranger |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient |

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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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a flat-faced, nosey, uninvited stranger from the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t10:o1:1
# text = a flat-faced, nosey, uninvited stranger from the north
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nosey	nosey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a grey-bearded old hag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t10:o2:1
# text = a grey-bearded old hag
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a flat-faced, nosey person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t10:o3:1
# text = a flat-faced, nosey person
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nosey	nosey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fat-bellied, loud lout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t10:o4:1
# text = a fat-bellied, loud lout
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bellied	belly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lout	lout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belly** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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