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title: Whit wis the hawk's big line about things being bad? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit wis the hawk's big line about things being bad? Test 7 · ★ 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 question and of ea
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Whit wis the hawk's big line about things being bad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, things · **What happens:** wi, be · **To what, where:** big line

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t7:1
# text = Whit wis the hawk's big line about things being bad?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | Whit | the hawk's big line |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | things | the hawk's big line *not said here* |  |  |  | bad *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t7:o1:1
# text = bad
1	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t7:o2:1
# text = worse
1	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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always as good as before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t7:o3:1
# text = always as good as before
1	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	obl	_	_
```

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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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never so bad but worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t7:o4:1
# text = never so bad but worse
1	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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