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title: Who actually owned that colt, bro? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who actually owned that colt, bro? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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 wrong.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

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Who actually owned that colt, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** own · **To what, where:** colt

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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/1319-pg3454-part44/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t13:1
# text = Who actually owned that colt, bro?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past |  | colt and bro |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colt=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 {#o1}

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a passing young shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t13:o1:1
# text = a passing young shepherd
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the old korigan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t13:o2:1
# text = the old korigan
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	korigan	korigan	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}

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the magician Rogear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t13:o3:1
# text = the magician Rogear
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1319-pg3454-part44:t13:o4:1
# text = a farmer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	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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