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title: Did the nurse let Deirdre talk tae any boy, mate? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deird… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the nurse let Deirdre talk tae any boy, mate? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

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Did the nurse let Deirdre talk tae any boy, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nurse, Deirdre · **What happens:** let, talk

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» 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/1994-pg7885-part13/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t5:1
# text = Did the nurse let Deirdre talk tae any boy, mate?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past · do-support | the nurse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | Deirdre |  |  |  |  | tae any boy and mate | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Naw, nae man in the whole world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t5:o1:1
# text = Naw, nae man in the whole world
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	nae	nae	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t5:o2:1
# text = No boys
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, a wee bit wi the boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t5:o3:1
# text = Aye, a wee bit wi the boys
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	wi	wi	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Naw, but she could speak tae her da

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t5:o4:1
# text = Naw, but she could speak tae her da
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	da	da	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | Naw |  |  |  |  | tae Naw's da | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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