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title: Mate, who got tae untie the knot in the end? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who got tae untie the knot in the end? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

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Mate, who got tae untie the knot in the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** get, untie · **To what, where:** knot, end

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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/2008-pg7885-part27/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t7:1
# text = Mate, who got tae untie the knot in the end?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	mark	_	_
6	untie	untie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **untie** | infinitive | Mate *not said here* | the knot |  |  | in the end |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the herd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t7:o1:1
# text = the herd
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the black-horse lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t7:o2:1
# text = the black-horse lad
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the General

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t7:o3:1
# text = the General
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 auld soothsayer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t7:o4:1
# text = the auld soothsayer
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soothsayer	soothsayer	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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