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title: Mate, what did the eagle peck at off that rock? — Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the eagle peck at off that rock? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1340 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, and the boar Trwyth chased» 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…

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Mate, what did the eagle peck at off that rock?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** eagle peck, rock

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1340 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, and the boar Trwyth chased» 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/1340-pg3454-part65/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t6:1
# text = Mate, what did the eagle peck at off that rock?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	peck	peck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the eagle peck |  | that rock |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=Eventuality |

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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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Lichen off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t6:o1:1
# text = Lichen off
1	Lichen	lichen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lichen off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Moss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t6:o2:1
# text = Moss
1	Moss	moss	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 stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t6:o3:1
# text = The stars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lichen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t6:o4:1
# text = Lichen
1	Lichen	lichen	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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