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title: Mate, which wee beastie showed up when the fire was lit in the wood? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which wee beastie showed up when the fire was lit in the wood? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Mate, which wee beastie showed up when the fire was lit in the wood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** beastie, show up, lit · **To what, where:** fire, wood

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t2:1
# text = Mate, which wee beastie showed up when the fire was lit in the wood?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beastie	beastie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beastie** |  | Mate and wee beastie |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show up** | past | Mate and wee beastie |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lit** | past · passive |  | the fire |  | the wood |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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a hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t2:o1:1
# text = a hare
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a slim yellow dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t2:o2:1
# text = a slim yellow dog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	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 tall grey wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t2:o3:1
# text = a tall grey wolf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a wee brown bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t2:o4:1
# text = a wee brown bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	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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