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title: fr, what's the deal with that black castle? — Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what's the deal with that black castle? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 9 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, what's the deal with that black castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deal

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» 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/1262-pg3282-part63/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1262-pg3282-part63:t9:1
# text = fr, what's the deal with that black castle?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | fr | the deal |  |  |  | with that black castle | 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it's a ruin, and bandits live there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1262-pg3282-part63:t9:o1:1
# text = it's a ruin, and bandits live there
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	bandits	bandit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a ruin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | bandits | a ruin *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ruin=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it's lonely, with no road to it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1262-pg3282-part63:t9:o2:1
# text = it's lonely, with no road to it
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | with no road to road; lonely *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it's enchanted, and nobody came back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1262-pg3282-part63:t9:o3:1
# text = it's enchanted, and nobody came back
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it's haunted, no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1262-pg3282-part63:t9:o4:1
# text = it's haunted, no
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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