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title: Did the herd, like, get paid in dosh? — More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the herd, like, get paid in dosh? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 6 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a po…

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Did the herd, like, get paid in dosh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, pay · **To what, where:** herd, dosh

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2007 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Fisherman's Son, part 1: a poor fisherman promises his first son to the sea-maiden, and the son sets out» 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/2007-pg7885-part26/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2007-pg7885-part26:t6:1
# text = Did the herd, like, get paid in dosh?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dosh	dosh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the herd |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | dosh |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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In coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2007-pg7885-part26:t6:o1:1
# text = In coins
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Paid in silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2007-pg7885-part26:t6:o2:1
# text = Paid in silver
1	Paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  | silver |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Paid in milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2007-pg7885-part26:t6:o3:1
# text = Paid in milk
1	Paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  | milk |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In cattle hides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2007-pg7885-part26:t6:o4:1
# text = In cattle hides
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
3	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present |  |  |  |  |  | in cattle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cattle=Location |

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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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