--- title: What were the bloody shirts about, fam? — Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: What were the bloody shirts about, fam? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1666 «Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut» 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 ri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1666-pg5615-part55/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged le… What were the bloody shirts about, fam? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bloody · **What happens:** be, shirt · **To what, where:** fam This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1666 «Tales from the Fjeld, King Lindorm, part 55: the forged letters and the flight to the hut» 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/1666-pg5615-part55/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1666-pg5615-part55:t7:1 # text = What were the bloody shirts about, fam? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shirts shirt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | bloody *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shirt** | present | the bloody | fam | | | | about *property* | tree rules | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Spirits whipping Peter every day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1666-pg5615-part55:t7:o1:1 # text = Spirits whipping Peter every day 1 Spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 whipping whip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whip** | gerund | Spirits *not said here* | Peter | | | day | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent peter=Material | ### Option 2 {#o2} Peter's cursed blood spilled ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1666-pg5615-part55:t7:o2:1 # text = Peter's cursed blood spilled 1 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 spilled spill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curse** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spill** | participle | | Peter's cursed blood *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Blood stains ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1666-pg5615-part55:t7:o3:1 # text = Blood stains 1 Blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 stains stain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Spirits hunting the queen ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1666-pg5615-part55:t7:o4:1 # text = Spirits hunting the queen 1 Spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | gerund | Spirits *not said here* | the queen | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | **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. 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