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title: Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it? Test 7 · ★ 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 t
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit big birdie · **What happens:** grab, fly · **To what, where:** bag, aff wi

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t7:1
# text = Whit big birdie grabbed the bag and flew aff wi' it?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	aff	aff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | Whit big birdie | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Whit big birdie *not said here* | aff wi |  |  |  | birdie *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wi=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A big crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t7:o1:1
# text = A big crow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crow	crow	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 hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t7:o2:1
# text = A great hawk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hawk	hawk	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 big craw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t7:o3:1
# text = A big craw
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	craw	craw	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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An eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t7:o4:1
# text = An eagle
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	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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