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title: With reference to the passage, what did the Thief of Sloan state was… — West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bell… · tree and pragmatics
description: With reference to the passage, what did the Thief of Sloan state was the Knight's sole form of watch? Exam question 2 of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» of the books course of Mova's primar
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# Exam question 2 · West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the thre…

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With reference to the passage, what did the Thief of Sloan state was the Knight's sole form of watch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** passage · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sole form

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1516 «West Highland Tales, The Steed of Bells, part 13: the three princes set out with the Thief of Sloan to reach the Knight's castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1516-pg540-part13/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1516-pg540-part13:e2:1
# text = With reference to the passage, what did the Thief of Sloan state was the Knight's sole form of watch?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Sloan	Sloan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Knight	Knight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · do-support | the passage | the Knight's sole form |  |  |  | of watch | 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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The walls and gates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1516-pg540-part13:e2:o1:1
# text = The walls and gates
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A hundred armed men and a deep moat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1516-pg540-part13:e2:o2:1
# text = A hundred armed men and a deep moat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bells that ring at every single step

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1516-pg540-part13:e2:o3:1
# text = The bells that ring at every single step
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | present | the bells |  |  |  |  | at every single step | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The steed itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1516-pg540-part13:e2:o4:1
# text = The steed itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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