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title: So the maiden chucked him an apple, right? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the maiden chucked him an apple, right? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

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So the maiden chucked him an apple, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** chuck · **To what, where:** apple, him

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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/1983-pg7885-part2/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t3:1
# text = So the maiden chucked him an apple, right?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | the maiden | a apple | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination apple=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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an apple

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t3:o1:1
# text = an apple
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a pear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t3:o2:1
# text = a pear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a silver apple from the orchard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t3:o3:1
# text = a silver apple from the orchard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a red ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t3:o4:1
# text = a red ball
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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