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title: Mint or what, King O'Toole's goose used to do what? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mint or what, King O'Toole's goose used to do what? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

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Mint or what, King O'Toole's goose used to do what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** goose · **What happens:** use, do

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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/1998-pg7885-part17/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t11:1
# text = Mint or what, King O'Toole's goose used to do what?
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | King's goose |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | King's goose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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dive for trout for the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t11:o1:1
# text = dive for trout for the king
1	dive	dive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for trout; for the king | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for trout=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fetch trout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t11:o2:1
# text = fetch trout
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | imperative | you *not said here* | trout |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
swim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t11:o3:1
# text = swim
1	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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catch fish for the cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t11:o4:1
# text = catch fish for the cook
1	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | imperative | you *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | for the cook | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fish=Theme for cook=Beneficiary |

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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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