--- title: Whit made the door go shriek, did it? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics description: Whit made the door go shriek, did it? Test 4 · ★ 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 question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1146-pg3027-part12/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:… Whit made the door go shriek, did it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, door · **What happens:** make, go, do · **To what, where:** door, shriek This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t4:1 # text = Whit made the door go shriek, did it? 1 Whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make 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 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 shriek shriek NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Whit | the door | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | the door *not said here* | shriek | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shriek=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past | Whit *not said here* | shriek | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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 wee metal tip o the scabbard, like ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t4:o1:1 # text = the wee metal tip o the scabbard, like 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 scabbard scabbard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the bottom bit o the sword's sheath ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t4:o2:1 # text = the bottom bit o the sword's sheath 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bottom bottom ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 sheath sheath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the point o the blade ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t4:o3:1 # text = the point o the blade 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point** | | | the blade | | | | | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the tip o the sheath ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t4:o4:1 # text = the tip o the sheath 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sheath sheath NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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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