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title: Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the ki… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the king, like, trying to be sneaky? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins th…

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Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the king, like, trying to be sneaky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it, Wise Man · **What happens:** be, dot, try · **To what, where:** Wise Man, cheek

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1279 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad: the Shifty Lad wins the princess, then dies on the bridge of Dublin» 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/1279-pg3454-part4/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t1:1
# text = Yo, was it the Wise Man who dotted the Shifty Lad's cheek, or the king, like, trying to be sneaky?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dotted	dot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | the Wise Man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dot** | past | the Wise Man | the Shifty Lad's cheek |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cheek=Destination |
| 3 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sneaky *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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the Wizard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t1:o1:1
# text = the Wizard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the attendant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t1:o2:1
# text = the attendant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the Wise Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t1:o3:1
# text = the Wise Man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the chief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1279-pg3454-part4:t1:o4:1
# text = the chief
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	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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