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title: Mate, where did Covan kip that night? — Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Cova… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, where did Covan kip that night? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

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Mate, where did Covan kip that night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Covan · **What happens:** kip · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1185 «Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, duck and salmon and wins back his sister» 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/1185-pg3027-part51/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t1:1
# text = Mate, where did Covan kip that night?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kip	kip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kip** | past · do-support | Covan | Mate |  |  | night |  | 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 {#o1}

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Beside the loch shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t1:o1:1
# text = Beside the loch shore
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loch	loch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	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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Under a fallen oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t1:o2:1
# text = Under a fallen oak
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In a barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t1:o3:1
# text = In a barn
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barn	barn	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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On the riverbank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t1:o4:1
# text = On the riverbank
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riverbank	riverbank	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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