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title: What got the dog all bloody round the mouth? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn… · tree and pragmatics
description: What got the dog all bloody round the mouth? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

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What got the dog all bloody round the mouth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** dog

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t6:1
# text = What got the dog all bloody round the mouth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | the dog |  |  |  | bloody *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |

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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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a rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t6:o1:1
# text = a rabbit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t6:o2:1
# text = the cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the wolf he'd nailed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t6:o3:1
# text = the wolf he'd nailed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	nailed	nail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nail** | past · perfect | he | the wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the deer he'd caught

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2015-pg7885-part34:t6:o4:1
# text = the deer he'd caught
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | the deer *not said here* | he |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «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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