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title: and what was the porter's point about the gate tonight, bruv? — Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64… · tree and pragmatics
description: and what was the porter's point about the gate tonight, bruv? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 12 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way…

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and what was the porter's point about the gate tonight, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** point

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» 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/1339-pg3454-part64/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t12:1
# text = and what was the porter's point about the gate tonight, bruv?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the porter's point |  |  | tonight |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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it's shut tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t12:o1:1
# text = it's shut tonight
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  | tonight | shut *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he's shut it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t12:o2:1
# text = he's shut it up
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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it's locked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t12:o3:1
# text = it's locked
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it's shut tonight whatever you shout, so go away now, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t12:o4:1
# text = it's shut tonight whatever you shout, so go away now, mate
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	appos	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | shut tonight and mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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