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title: Boss, who kicked the captain back out? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Boss, who kicked the captain back out? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

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Boss, who kicked the captain back out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Boss · **What happens:** kick · **To what, where:** captain

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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/2002-pg7885-part21/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t6:1
# text = Boss, who kicked the captain back out?
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past | Boss | the captain |  |  |  | out *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent captain=Patient |

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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 stubborn grey mule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t6:o1:1
# text = the stubborn grey mule
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mule	mule	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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the ass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t6:o2:1
# text = the ass
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the cock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t6:o3:1
# text = the cock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cock	cock	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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the poor old donkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:t6:o4:1
# text = the poor old donkey
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	donkey	donkey	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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