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title: Which muckle thing did wee Ian hide ahint? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which muckle thing did wee Ian hide ahint? Test 3 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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Which muckle thing did wee Ian hide ahint?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** muckle thing · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** wee Ian hide ahint

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t3:1
# text = Which muckle thing did wee Ian hide ahint?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ahint	ahint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which muckle thing | wee Ian hide ahint |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahint=Eventuality |

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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 big dark cupboard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t3:o1:1
# text = A big dark cupboard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cupboard	cupboard	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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A great big barrel by the fireplace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t3:o2:1
# text = A great big barrel by the fireplace
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A muckle wooden table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t3:o3:1
# text = A muckle wooden table
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	table	table	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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A great big barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t3:o4:1
# text = A great big barrel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	barrel	barrel	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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