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title: Which castle was the Scots' target, innit? — Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which castle was the Scots' target, innit? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

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Which castle was the Scots' target, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** castle, target · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** target

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t3:1
# text = Which castle was the Scots' target, innit?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which castle | the Scots's target |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the Scots's target *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The one the English seized

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t3:o1:1
# text = The one the English seized
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The one the Scots lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t3:o2:1
# text = The one the Scots lost
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The castle near the moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t3:o3:1
# text = The castle near the moor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The one the English nicked early on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t3:o4:1
# text = The one the English nicked early on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nicked	nick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nick** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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