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title: Whit did the deer shake aff her lug tae mend him? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the deer shake aff her lug tae mend him? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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Whit did the deer shake aff her lug tae mend him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** shake, mend · **To what, where:** aff, him

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1302 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is killed and revived by the deer, then the birds carry him under the sea» 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/1302-pg3454-part27/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t2:1
# text = Whit did the deer shake aff her lug tae mend him?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shake	shake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	aff	aff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lug	lug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	mark	_	_
10	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past · do-support | Whit | aff |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent aff=Theme lug=Destination |
| 2 | **mend** | infinitive | Whit *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | 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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Gey sticky earwax frae the lug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t2:o1:1
# text = Gey sticky earwax frae the lug
1	Gey	Gey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	earwax	earwax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	frae	frae	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lug	lug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t2:o2:1
# text = Honey
1	Honey	honey	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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Glaur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t2:o3:1
# text = Glaur
1	Glaur	Glaur	PROPN	NNP	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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Wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t2:o4:1
# text = Wax
1	Wax	wax	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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