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title: Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit? How much was t… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit? How much was the bet? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit? How much was the bet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Shifty Lad bet · **What happens:** nab, innit, be · **To what, where:** sheep, much bet

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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/1278-pg3454-part3/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:1
# text = Yo, the Shifty Lad bet he could nab the sheep, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	nab	nab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nab** | could | the Shifty Lad bet | the sheep |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the Shifty Lad bet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* How much was the bet?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:2
# text = How much was the bet?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the much bet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a hundred silver pieces and a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:o1:1
# text = a hundred silver pieces and a horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a hundred gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:o2:1
# text = a hundred gold coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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a hundred silver pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:o3:1
# text = a hundred silver pieces
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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three hundred silver pieces from the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t1:o4:1
# text = three hundred silver pieces from the king
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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