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title: Who had the key, like, the messer? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who had the key, like, the messer? Test 8 · ★ 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 of each o
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# Test 8 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…

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Who had the key, like, the messer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** key

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t8:1
# text = Who had the key, like, the messer?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	messer	messer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | the key and the messer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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 {#o1}

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The husband

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t8:o1:1
# text = The husband
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	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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The wee old woman who lived with them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t8:o2:1
# text = The wee old woman who lived with them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the wee old woman |  |  |  |  | with them *= they* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |

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

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The wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t8:o3:1
# text = The wife
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	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 grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t8:o4:1
# text = The grandmother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	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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