--- title: Dude, what did the storyteller say he'd keep? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Begg… · tree and pragmatics description: Dude, what did the storyteller say he'd keep? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2006-pg7885-part25/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Begg…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2006-pg7885-part25/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi… Dude, what did the storyteller say he'd keep? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do, say, keep · **To what, where:** storyteller · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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/2006-pg7885-part25/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t11:1 # text = Dude, what did the storyteller say he'd keep? 1 Dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 storyteller storyteller NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Dude | the storyteller | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storyteller=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dude | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** | would | Dude | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} His carriage and hounds, dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t11:o1:1 # text = His carriage and hounds, dude 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} His horse and sword, dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t11:o2:1 # text = His horse and sword, dude 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} His hounds, dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t11:o3:1 # text = His hounds, dude 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} His wife and coins, dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2006-pg7885-part25:t11:o4:1 # text = His wife and coins, dude 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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