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title: Who ended up grabbing the salmon by its tail? — Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Cova… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who ended up grabbing the salmon by its tail? Test 8 · ★ 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Covan son of Gorla: Covan catches the roe, d…

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Who ended up grabbing the salmon by its tail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** end up, grab · **To what, where:** salmon

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t8:1
# text = Who ended up grabbing the salmon by its tail?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grab** | gerund |  | the salmon |  |  |  | by salmon's tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme |

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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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The Dog of Maol-mor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t8:o1:1
# text = The Dog of Maol-mor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Maol	Maol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mor	mor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The great otter who had helped Covan on the riverbank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t8:o2:1
# text = The great otter who had helped Covan on the riverbank
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past · perfect | the great otter |  | Covan | the riverbank |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covan=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The old man's young son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t8:o3:1
# text = The old man's young son
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	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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Doran-donn the otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1185-pg3027-part51:t8:o4:1
# text = Doran-donn the otter
1	Doran	Doran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	donn	donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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