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title: Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder? Test 11 · ★ 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 question and
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wha · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bloke, end carryin

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t11:1
# text = Wha's the bloke at the end carryin' on his shoulder?
1	Wha	Wha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	carryin	carryin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wha | the bloke |  | the end carryin on Wha's shoulder |  |  | 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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a fat sheep from the upper field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t11:o1:1
# text = a fat sheep from the upper field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t11:o2:1
# text = a lamb
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a heavy sack of potatoes from the shed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t11:o3:1
# text = a heavy sack of potatoes from the shed
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a fat sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t11:o4:1
# text = a fat sheep
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	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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