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title: Who got the job o looking efter the horses, no? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who got the job o looking efter the horses, no? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

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Who got the job o looking efter the horses, no?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get, look · **To what, where:** job

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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/1146-pg3027-part12/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t8:1
# text = Who got the job o looking efter the horses, no?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	7	case	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	efter	efter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | the job |  |  |  | of looking efter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent job=Beneficiary horse=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Ian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = Ian
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dougal Brodie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = Dougal Brodie
1	Dougal	Dougal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Brodie	Brodie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = the cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ian Direach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = Ian Direach
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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