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title: Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon? Test 10 · ★ 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 the question
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

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Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** castle, you · **What happens:** be, reckon · **To what, where:** ford

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t10:1
# text = Whose castle was near the ford, do you reckon?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ford's castle |  |  | the ford |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** | present · do-support | you | the ford *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ford=Attribute |

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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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Red Hugh O'Donnell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t10:o1:1
# text = Red Hugh O'Donnell
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	O'Donnell	O'Donnell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Red Hugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t10:o2:1
# text = Red Hugh
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	NNP	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 king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t10:o3:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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Red Hugh Donnelly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2005-pg7885-part24:t10:o4:1
# text = Red Hugh Donnelly
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Hugh	Hugh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Donnelly	Donnelly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

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

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