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title: Haud on, hou many eggs wis in the magpie's nest? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daught… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haud on, hou many eggs wis in the magpie's nest? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Haud on, hou many eggs wis in the magpie's nest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hou · **What happens:** wi · **To what, where:** nest

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» 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/1322-pg3454-part47/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t6:1
# text = Haud on, hou many eggs wis in the magpie's nest?
1	Haud	haud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	hou	hou	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** |  | hou |  |  | the magpie's nest |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t6:o1:1
# text = five
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t6:o2:1
# text = four
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five, a' blue wi brown speckles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t6:o3:1
# text = five, a' blue wi brown speckles
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	wi	wi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	nsubj	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	speckles	speckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speckle** |  | wi |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five eggs, a' warm, hidden in the nest under the magpie's tail

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t6:o4:1
# text = five eggs, a' warm, hidden in the nest under the magpie's tail
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |

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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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