--- title: Whit did the colt's tail hit that made the shriek, aye? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics description: Whit did the colt's tail hit that made the shriek, aye? Test 12 · ★ 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 pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1146-pg3027-part12/t12/) [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/) / [Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1146-pg3027-part12/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:… Whit did the colt's tail hit that made the shriek, aye? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, tail hit, colt · **What happens:** do, make, hit · **To what, where:** tail hit, shriek This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t12:1 # text = Whit did the colt's tail hit that made the shriek, aye? 1 Whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do 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 colt colt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 hit hit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shriek shriek NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 aye aye INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the colt's tail hit | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hit=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | past | the colt's tail hit | the shriek | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shriek=Product | | 3 | **hit** | | the colt | | | | | | nom hit «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} the wall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t12:o1:1 # text = the wall 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the iron gate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t12:o2:1 # text = the iron gate 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the gatepost ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t12:o3:1 # text = the gatepost 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gatepost gatepost NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the auld stone gatepost at the front ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t12:o4:1 # text = the auld stone gatepost at the front 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 auld auld ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 gatepost gatepost NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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