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title: Whit did the Thief fear most in the vault? — Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the Thief fear most in the vault? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

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Whit did the Thief fear most in the vault?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Thief fear

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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/1517-pg540-part14/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t12:1
# text = Whit did the Thief fear most in the vault?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the Thief fear  most in the vault |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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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Losin the gold tae thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t12:o1:1
# text = Losin the gold tae thieves
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tae	tae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Losin his life tae the guards who might come doon the stair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t12:o2:1
# text = Losin his life tae the guards who might come doon the stair
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	doon	doon	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stair	stair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | might | his Losin life tae the guards | the stair |  |  |  | doon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Losin his life tae the guards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t12:o3:1
# text = Losin his life tae the guards
1	Losin	Losin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bein caught wi the gold an' hung in the square by the bishop's men

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t12:o4:1
# text = Bein caught wi the gold an' hung in the square by the bishop's men
1	Bein	Bein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wi	wi	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Bein |  |  |  |  | wi the gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | participle · passive | the bishop's men | an |  | the square |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in square=Destination |

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