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title: Whit did the wife gie Ian tae drink? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the wife gie Ian tae drink? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Whit did the wife gie Ian tae drink?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** gie, drink · **To what, where:** Ian

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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/1143-pg3027-part9/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t13:1
# text = Whit did the wife gie Ian tae drink?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gie	gie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
8	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gie** | past · do-support | Whit | Ian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** | infinitive | Whit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a cup o' milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t13:o1:1
# text = a cup o' milk
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t13:o2:1
# text = milk
1	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cup o' water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t13:o3:1
# text = a cup o' water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a jug o' ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t13:o4:1
# text = a jug o' ale
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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