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title: Bro, where was that gallows, exactly? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, where was that gallows, exactly? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Bro, where was that gallows, exactly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gallows

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t8:1
# text = Bro, where was that gallows, exactly?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | gallows |  |  |  | exactly *property* | 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 {#o1}

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by a river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t8:o1:1
# text = by a river
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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beside a road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t8:o2:1
# text = beside a road
1	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
on top of a hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t8:o3:1
# text = on top of a hill
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	top	top	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	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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in a wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t8:o4:1
# text = in a wood
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wood	wood	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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