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title: Whit did the fox turn intae to sail tae Erin? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the fox turn intae to sail tae Erin? Test 7 · ★ 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 q
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# Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

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Whit did the fox turn intae to sail tae Erin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, fox · **What happens:** do, turn, sail · **To what, where:** intae

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t7:1
# text = Whit did the fox turn intae to sail tae Erin?
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	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	intae	intae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	10	case	_	_
10	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the fox | intae |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent intae=Theme |
| 3 | **sail** | to-infinitive | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tae Erin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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 {#o1}

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a dug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t7:o1:1
# text = a dug
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dug	dug	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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a selkie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t7:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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a braw wooden fishin boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t7:o3:1
# text = a braw wooden fishin boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	braw	braw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fishin	fishin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t7:o4:1
# text = a ship
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	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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