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title: Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** greet · **To what, where:** hardest

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t6:1
# text = Why did the lady greet the hardest the third time?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
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	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · do-support | the lady | the hardest |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme |

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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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Cause she kent the sea wid tak him doon in the mornin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t6:o1:1
# text = Cause she kent the sea wid tak him doon in the mornin'
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kent	kent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	tak	tak	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	doon	doon	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kent** | infinitive | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wi** | past | the sea |  |  | the mornin |  | tak him *= he*; doon *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cause it wis her very last chance tae see him ever again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t6:o2:1
# text = Cause it wis her very last chance tae see him ever again
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | it | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | last chance *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  | ever; again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cause her faither wis angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t6:o3:1
# text = Cause her faither wis angry
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	faither	faither	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	wis	wis	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cause it wis her last chance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t6:o4:1
# text = Cause it wis her last chance
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | it | her last chance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chance** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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