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title: Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…

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Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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/2009-pg7885-part28/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2009-pg7885-part28:t7:1
# text = Mental, how hard could Cucullin stamp?
1	Mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	stamp	stamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hard enough to shake a village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2009-pg7885-part28:t7:o1:1
# text = Hard enough to shake a village
1	Hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	cc	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | a village |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent village=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hard enough to crack a rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2009-pg7885-part28:t7:o2:1
# text = Hard enough to crack a rock
1	Hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	crack	crack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | to-infinitive |  | a rock |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Very hard, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2009-pg7885-part28:t7:o3:1
# text = Very hard, bruv
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hard enough to shake a townland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2009-pg7885-part28:t7:o4:1
# text = Hard enough to shake a townland
1	Hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	cc	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	townland	townland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | a townland |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent townland=Patient |

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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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