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title: Mate, which cross would the fairy court pass? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which cross would the fairy court pass? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

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Mate, which cross would the fairy court pass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cross · **What happens:** pass · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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/1285-pg3454-part10/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t9:1
# text = Mate, which cross would the fairy court pass?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
4	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | would | cross | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory |

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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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the cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = the cross
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cross	cross	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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by the bog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = by the bog
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bog	bog	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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near the old mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = near the old mill
1	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mill	mill	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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near Templeshambo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = near Templeshambo
1	near	near	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Templeshambo	Templeshambo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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