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title: Did the king give them a gaff of a palace? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the king give them a gaff of a palace? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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Did the king give them a gaff of a palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** gaff, them

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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/1286-pg3454-part11/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t3:1
# text = Did the king give them a gaff of a palace?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the king | a gaff of a palace | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gaff=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, a castle with silver towers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t3:o1:1
# text = Aye, a castle with silver towers
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a palace with green marble baths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a palace with green marble baths
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a massive palace with gold coaches and green marble baths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, a massive palace with gold coaches and green marble baths
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a gaff full of golden stuff, a coach and marble baths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a gaff full of golden stuff, a coach and marble baths
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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

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