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title: Dead ting: what was the fairy castle really, bruv? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead ting: what was the fairy castle really, bruv? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

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Dead ting: what was the fairy castle really, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dead ting · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fairy castle

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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/1285-pg3454-part10/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t8:1
# text = Dead ting: what was the fairy castle really, bruv?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dead ting and the fairy castle and bruv | the fairy castle |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a manky cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = a manky cave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	manky	manky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cave	cave	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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a dirty hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = a dirty hole
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a mess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = a mess
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mess	mess	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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a cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = a cave
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cave	cave	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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