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title: Did Tom have to learn loads of boring stuff for the royals? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Tom have to learn loads of boring stuff for the royals? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 2022 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning flail from hell and the Danes run off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning fl…

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Did Tom have to learn loads of boring stuff for the royals?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** have, learn · **To what, where:** loads

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2022 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning flail from hell and the Danes run off» 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/2022-pg7885-part41/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2022-pg7885-part41:t13:1
# text = Did Tom have to learn loads of boring stuff for the royals?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	royals	royal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | loads of boring stuff |  |  |  | for the royals | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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Yeah, mostly sums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2022-pg7885-part41:t13:o1:1
# text = Yeah, mostly sums
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just gardening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2022-pg7885-part41:t13:o2:1
# text = Nah, just gardening
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gardening	garden	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **garden** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, manners, fluxions and gunnery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2022-pg7885-part41:t13:o3:1
# text = Yeah, manners, fluxions and gunnery
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fluxions	fluxion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gunnery	gunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, dancing, Latin and sword play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2022-pg7885-part41:t13:o4:1
# text = Yeah, dancing, Latin and sword play
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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