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title: Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw? Test 9 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sound · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** lad nick, straw

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t9:1
# text = Sound, so what did the lad nick from behind the straw?
1	Sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Sound | the lad nick |  | the straw |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |

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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 silver and the gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = the silver and the gold
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the gold box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = the gold box
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the gold and silver chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = the gold and silver chest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the money bags and coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = the money bags and coins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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