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title: Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that? — Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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 1 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

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Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Oi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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/345-pg18442-part5/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t1:1
# text = Oi, why'd folk call the Black Douglas that?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | would |  | Oi |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |

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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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'Cause his hair and beard were black as coal from birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t1:o1:1
# text = 'Cause his hair and beard were black as coal from birth
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | his hair and beard |  |  | birth |  | as coal; black *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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'Cause everyone reckoned his hair and beard looked black in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t1:o2:1
# text = 'Cause everyone reckoned his hair and beard looked black in the sun
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past |  | his hair |  |  |  | cause everyone | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hair=Attribute |
| 2 | **look** | past | beard |  |  |  |  | in the sun; black *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sun=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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'Cause his beard was dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t1:o3:1
# text = 'Cause his beard was dark
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dark	dark	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 |  |  |  |  |  | cause his beard; dark *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
'Cause his hair and beard were black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t1:o4:1
# text = 'Cause his hair and beard were black
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	black	black	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 | his hair and beard |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |

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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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