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title: Who's the old dude King O'Toole meets by the lake? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the old dude King O'Toole meets by the lake? Test 12 · ★ 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; Mova
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# Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

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Who's the old dude King O'Toole meets by the lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old dude, King · **What happens:** be, meet · **To what, where:** old dude

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t12:1
# text = Who's the old dude King O'Toole meets by the lake?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the old dude |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | present | King | the old dude *not said here* |  |  |  | by the lake | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Co-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 {#o1}

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a tall grey stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t12:o1:1
# text = a tall grey stranger
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Saint Kavin in disguise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t12:o2:1
# text = Saint Kavin in disguise
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Kavin	Kavin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t12:o3:1
# text = a priest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a wise old beggar man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1998-pg7885-part17:t12:o4:1
# text = a wise old beggar man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	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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