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title: Which lads were after the lady, like? — Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which lads were after the lady, like? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

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Which lads were after the lady, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lads · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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/2012-pg7885-part31/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t9:1
# text = Which lads were after the lady, like?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which lads |  |  |  | after the lady |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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the young men of Dublin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t9:o1:1
# text = the young men of Dublin
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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all the princes of Erin and every lad who came to the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t9:o2:1
# text = all the princes of Erin and every lad who came to the church
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | every lad |  |  | the church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all the princes of Erin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t9:o3:1
# text = all the princes of Erin
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
every prince and young man from Emania down to the southern sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t9:o4:1
# text = every prince and young man from Emania down to the southern sea
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Emania	Emania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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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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