--- title: Whit did the raven say tae tell fowk aboot where ye came fae? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics description: Whit did the raven say tae tell fowk aboot where ye came fae? Test 5 · ★ 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 quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1143-pg3027-part9/t5/) [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/) / [Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1143-pg3027-part9/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride… Whit did the raven say tae tell fowk aboot where ye came fae? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, ye · **What happens:** say, tell, come · **To what, where:** fowk aboot, fae · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t5:1 # text = Whit did the raven say tae tell fowk aboot where ye came fae? 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 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 tae tae X FW Foreign=Yes 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 fowk fowk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 aboot aboot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 fae fae NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Whit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Whit *not said here* | fowk aboot | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aboot=Recipient | | 3 | **come** | past | ye | fae | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fae=Theme | 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} say ye're fae ahint ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t5:o1:1 # text = say ye're fae ahint 1 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fae fae X FW _ 5 compound _ _ 5 ahint ahint NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | ye | fae ahint | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} say ye came fae ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t5:o2:1 # text = say ye came fae 1 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 fae fae X FW Foreign=Yes 3 dep _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past | ye | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} say ye came fae ahint ye ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t5:o3:1 # text = say ye came fae ahint ye 1 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 fae fae X FW _ 5 compound _ _ 5 ahint ahint NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past | ye | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ahint** | | ye | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} say naething ava ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t5:o4:1 # text = say naething ava 1 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 naething naething NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ava ava NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | naething ava | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ava=Topic | **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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