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title: how good was Tell's aim, mate? — Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: how good was Tell's aim, mate? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

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how good was Tell's aim, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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/348-pg18442-part8/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t4:1
# text = how good was Tell's aim, mate?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tell *property* | 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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he hit the tree trunk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t4:o1:1
# text = he hit the tree trunk
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | the tree trunk |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he hit the target near the edge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t4:o2:1
# text = he hit the target near the edge
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	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	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | the target |  | the edge |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent target=Theme near edge=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he hit the apple dead centre first time with one shot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t4:o3:1
# text = he hit the apple dead centre first time with one shot
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | the apple dead centre |  |  | time | with one shot | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent centre=Patient with shot=Instrument |

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

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he hit the apple dead centre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t4:o4:1
# text = he hit the apple dead centre
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hit	hit	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	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | the apple |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient centre=Result |

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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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