--- title: Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with? — Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with? Test 2 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/345-pg18442-part5/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b… Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t2:1 # text = Mate, who was the Douglas buddies with? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Douglas Douglas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 buddies buddy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | Mate *vocative*; buddy *property* | tree rules | 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} Sir William Wallace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t2:o1:1 # text = Sir William Wallace 1 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 Wallace Wallace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Some English lord who ruled the border lands ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t2:o2:1 # text = Some English lord who ruled the border lands 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rule** | past | some English lord | the border lands | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} King Edward, I think ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t2:o3:1 # text = King Edward, I think 1 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Edward Edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | Edward King *vocative* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} King Robert Bruce ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t2:o4:1 # text = King Robert Bruce 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 Bruce Bruce PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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