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title: Ye ken whit the fox turned intae first, aye? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye ken whit the fox turned intae first, aye? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 1 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

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Ye ken whit the fox turned intae first, aye?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ye, fox · **What happens:** whit, turn · **To what, where:** intae

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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/1146-pg3027-part12/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t1:1
# text = Ye ken whit the fox turned intae first, aye?
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ken	ken	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	whit	whit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	intae	intae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whit** |  | Ye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the fox | intae |  |  |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent intae=Theme |

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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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a muckle big boat, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = a muckle big boat, like
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = a boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	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 selkie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = a selkie
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	selkie	selkie	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 braw auld fishin' boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = a braw auld fishin' boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fishin	fishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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