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title: Which name was given to the Priest in the text? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which name was given to the Priest in the text? Exam question 1 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 1 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Which name was given to the Priest in the text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** name, Priest, text

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e1:1
# text = Which name was given to the Priest in the text?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Priest	Priest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | which name | the Priest | the text |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to priest=Recipient |

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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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Reverend Father Lawrence Dunne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e1:o1:1
# text = Reverend Father Lawrence Dunne
1	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Dunne	Dunne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brother Edmund

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e1:o2:1
# text = Brother Edmund
1	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Father Lawrence of Saint Mary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e1:o3:1
# text = Father Lawrence of Saint Mary
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Father Lawrence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:e1:o4:1
# text = Father Lawrence
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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