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title: Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

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Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** beggar, hand

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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/2005-pg7885-part24/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t1:1
# text = Yer man the beggar, what was he holding in his hand, like?
1	Yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · progressive | man | the beggar |  | man's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in hand=Location |

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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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a box and dice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t1:o1:1
# text = a box and dice
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a bag of coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t1:o2:1
# text = a bag of coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t1:o3:1
# text = a cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	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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a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t1:o4:1
# text = a stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	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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