--- title: Mate, how long did the king actually keep that grave watch going? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olw… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, how long did the king actually keep that grave watch going? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1337-pg3454-part62/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olw…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1337-pg3454-part62/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'… Mate, how long did the king actually keep that grave watch going? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grave watch · **What happens:** keep, go · **To what, where:** grave watch This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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/1337-pg3454-part62/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t3:1 # text = Mate, how long did the king actually keep that grave watch going? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 actually actually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 11 grave grave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | | that grave watch | | | | Mate *vocative*; actually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | gerund | that grave watch *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} A year, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t3:o1:1 # text = A year, mate 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Seven months, I reckon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t3:o2:1 # text = Seven months, I reckon 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reckon reckon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reckon** | present | Seven months | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Seven years, proper ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t3:o3:1 # text = Seven years, proper 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Like three years, dunno ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t3:o4:1 # text = Like three years, dunno 1 Like like INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 dunno dunno NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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