--- title: Yo, did the raven actually peck the first two brothers blind? — West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, did the raven actually peck the first two brothers blind? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1141-pg3027-part7/t1/) [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/) / [West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1141-pg3027-part7/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou… Yo, did the raven actually peck the first two brothers blind? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** raven · **What happens:** do, peck · **To what, where:** raven This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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/1141-pg3027-part7/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t1:1 # text = Yo, did the raven actually peck the first two brothers blind? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 actually actually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 peck peck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the raven | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Eventuality | | 2 | **peck** | infinitive | the raven *not said here* | | | | | actually *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} Aye ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t1:o1:1 # text = Aye 1 Aye aye INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t1:o2:1 # text = Nah 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Aye, it nearly blinded them ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t1:o3:1 # text = Aye, it nearly blinded them 1 Aye aye INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 blinded blind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blind** | past | it | them *= they* | | | | nearly *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Aye, it nearly sorted them out ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1141-pg3027-part7:t1:o4:1 # text = Aye, it nearly sorted them out 1 Aye aye INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sorted sort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sort out** | past | it | them *= they* | | | | nearly *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | **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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