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title: Dude, which noise did the boy copy to fool the shepherd? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, which noise did the boy copy to fool the shepherd? Test 3 · ★ 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 and of each option
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Dude, which noise did the boy copy to fool the shepherd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** noise · **What happens:** copy, fool · **To what, where:** Dude, shepherd

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t3:1
# text = Dude, which noise did the boy copy to fool the shepherd?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | past · do-support | noise | Dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fool** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* | the shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient |

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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 frightened sheep's loud bleat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t3:o1:1
# text = a frightened sheep's loud bleat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bleat	bleat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleat** |  | a frightened sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom bleat «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a goat's call

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t3:o2:1
# text = a goat's call
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** |  | a goat |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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a sheep's bleat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t3:o3:1
# text = a sheep's bleat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bleat	bleat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleat** |  | a sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom bleat «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the bleat of a sheep calling for its lamb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t3:o4:1
# text = the bleat of a sheep calling for its lamb
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bleat	bleat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund | the bleat of a sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sheep's lamb | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for lamb=Recipient |
| 2 | **bleat** |  | a sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom bleat «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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