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title: Dude, was Pryderi's idea sick or what? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, was Pryderi's idea sick or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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 w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryde…

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Dude, was Pryderi's idea sick or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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/1332-pg3454-part57/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t8:1
# text = Dude, was Pryderi's idea sick or what?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  | sick *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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fight the boar king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t8:o1:1
# text = fight the boar king
1	fight	fight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boar king |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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marry some local girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t8:o2:1
# text = marry some local girl
1	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | imperative | you *not said here* | some local girl |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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marry his mom Rhiannon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t8:o3:1
# text = marry his mom Rhiannon
1	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | imperative | you *not said here* | his mom |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mom=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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marry his mom Rhiannon and rule the land forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t8:o4:1
# text = marry his mom Rhiannon and rule the land forever
1	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rule	rule	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | imperative | you *not said here* | his mom |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mom=Patient |
| 2 | **rule** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the land |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

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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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