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title: Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy become…

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Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** sew · **To what, where:** coat

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1277 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 2: the boy becomes a thief's apprentice and robs a farmer at Hallowe'en» 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/1277-pg3454-part2/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t6:1
# text = Ha, the lad sewed the Gallows Bird's coat to what?
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | the lad | the Gallows Bird's coat |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient to what=Co-Patient |

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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 thick old blanket from the farm's kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t6:o1:1
# text = a thick old blanket from the farm's kitchen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sheep's wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t6:o2:1
# text = a sheep's wool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a bullock's hide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t6:o3:1
# text = a bullock's hide
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bullock	bullock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hide	hide	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 horse's skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1277-pg3454-part2:t6:o4:1
# text = a horse's skin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	skin	skin	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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