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title: Fr, what kind of boat did they hop into? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what kind of boat did they hop into? Test 6 · ★ 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 choice 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

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Fr, what kind of boat did they hop into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** hop

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t6:1
# text = Fr, what kind of boat did they hop into?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | past · do-support | Fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the silver wooden curragh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t6:o1:1
# text = the silver wooden curragh
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	curragh	curragh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a crystal ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t6:o2:1
# text = a crystal ship
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the gleaming crystal curragh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t6:o3:1
# text = the gleaming crystal curragh
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	curragh	curragh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the shining glass currach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t6:o4:1
# text = the shining glass currach
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	currach	currach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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