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title: deadass, what's a "bosthoon"? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what's a "bosthoon"? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2014 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires himself to the Gray Churl and turns every order against him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 12 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires hims…

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deadass, what's a "bosthoon"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** deadass · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bosthoon

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2014 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires himself to the Gray Churl and turns every order against him» 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/2014-pg7885-part33/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t12:1
# text = deadass, what's a "bosthoon"?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bosthoon	bosthoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | deadass | a bosthoon |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A clumsy, stupid fellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t12:o1:1
# text = A clumsy, stupid fellow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fellow	fellow	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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A lazy, idle farmhand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t12:o2:1
# text = A lazy, idle farmhand
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	farmhand	farmhand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A plough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t12:o3:1
# text = A plough
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A proud, grumpy neighbour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2014-pg7885-part33:t12:o4:1
# text = A proud, grumpy neighbour
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	neighbour	neighbour	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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