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title: Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son, part 27: Ian is…

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Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hou, sister · **What happens:** wi, take · **To what, where:** walk

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t9:1
# text = Hou long wid a walk tae the sister's hame take, like?
1	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	wid	wi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	hame	hame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	take	take	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | past | Hou | a walk |  |  |  | tae the sister's hame take; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** |  | the sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom take «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t9:o1:1
# text = Three days
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A year and a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t9:o2:1
# text = A year and a day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A month and a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t9:o3:1
# text = A month and a day
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two years or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1302-pg3454-part27:t9:o4:1
# text = Two years or so
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	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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