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title: who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40… · tree and pragmatics
description: who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts? Test 9 · ★ 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 opti
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# Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

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who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** keep, go · **To what, where:** amen

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t9:1
# text = who keeps going amen every time the big priest grunts?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	amen	amen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grunts	grunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  | amen |  |  | time |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the man behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t9:o1:1
# text = the man behind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the tall man standing at the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t9:o2:1
# text = the tall man standing at the back
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | the tall man *not said here* |  |  | the back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the stranger in the hood behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t9:o3:1
# text = the stranger in the hood behind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hood	hood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the boy beside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t9:o4:1
# text = the boy beside
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	2	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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