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title: ghosted? what did the Bull do to the silver troll's eyes? — Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: ghosted? what did the Bull do to the silver troll's eyes? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

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ghosted? what did the Bull do to the silver troll's eyes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bull · **What happens:** ghost, do

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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/1548-pg540-part45/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t12:1
# text = ghosted? what did the Bull do to the silver troll's eyes?
1	ghosted	ghost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ghost** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · do-support | the Bull |  |  |  |  | to the silver troll's eyes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 {#o1}

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clawed out eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t12:o1:1
# text = clawed out eyes
1	clawed	claw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claw out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bit them off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t12:o2:1
# text = bit them off
1	bit	bit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	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 | **bit off** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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gored them out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t12:o3:1
# text = gored them out
1	gored	gore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gore out** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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gored them out with his horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t12:o4:1
# text = gored them out with his horns
1	gored	gore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gore out** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | with his horns | tree rules |

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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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