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title: Wait, the wolf was just knackered, yeah? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the wolf was just knackered, yeah? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

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Wait, the wolf was just knackered, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, knacker · **To what, where:** wolf

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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/2015-pg7885-part34/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t10:1
# text = Wait, the wolf was just knackered, yeah?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	knackered	knacker	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knacker** | past · passive |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was alive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t10:o1:1
# text = Nah, it was alive
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was torn to bits and lying in the corner with its guts all over the floor

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it was torn to bits and lying in the corner with its guts all over the floor
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	guts	gut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  | to bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bit=Result |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the corner with corner's guts |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was torn to bits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it was torn to bits
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  | to bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bit=Result |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was shot dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t10:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it was shot dead
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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