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title: Did the girls get rescued, ya reckon? — West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the girls get rescued, ya reckon? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

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Did the girls get rescued, ya reckon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** rescue, reckon · **To what, where:** girls

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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/1141-pg3027-part7/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t11:1
# text = Did the girls get rescued, ya reckon?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	ya	ya	X	FW	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rescue** | past · passive · do-support |  | the girls |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reckon** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Aye, Ian's sorting them both out, and they'll be home by dinner

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t11:o1:1
# text = Aye, Ian's sorting them both out, and they'll be home by dinner
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | future | they |  |  |  |  | by dinner; home *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, Ian's sorting them both out after he kills the giants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t11:o2:1
# text = Aye, Ian's sorting them both out after he kills the giants
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present | Ian | the giants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, Ian's sorting them both out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t11:o3:1
# text = Aye, Ian's sorting them both out
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, Ian's freeing them both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t11:o4:1
# text = Aye, Ian's freeing them both
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	freeing	free	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **free** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | 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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