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title: Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gallows Bird · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** lad

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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/1277-pg3454-part2/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t10:1
# text = Like, what did the lad and the Gallows Bird do with the loot?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the lad |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | Gallows Bird |  |  |  |  | with the loot | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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shared it out equally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t10:o1:1
# text = shared it out equally
1	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share out** | past |  | it |  |  |  | equally *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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split it down the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t10:o2:1
# text = split it down the middle
1	split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split down** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Patient middle=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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buried it in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t10:o3:1
# text = buried it in the field
1	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past |  | it |  | the field |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in field=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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split it down the middle and went off to the pub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t10:o4:1
# text = split it down the middle and went off to the pub
1	split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pub	pub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split down** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Patient middle=Result |
| 2 | **go off** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the pub | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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