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title: Was the lady mental for crossing her foot ower the other? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the lady mental for crossing her foot ower the other? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1502 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady's wanderings and the Red Etin's beginning: the lady wins the knight back and the Red Etin's tale starts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Test 10 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

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Was the lady mental for crossing her foot ower the other?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** be, cross · **To what, where:** foot ower

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1502 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady's wanderings and the Red Etin's beginning: the lady wins the knight back and the Red Etin's tale starts» 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/1502-pg503-part89/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t10:1
# text = Was the lady mental for crossing her foot ower the other?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ower	ower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cross** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | her foot ower |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Aye, she was

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t10:o1:1
# text = Aye, she was
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Naw, she was sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t10:o2:1
# text = Naw, she was sad
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Naw |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Aye, she was that happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t10:o3:1
# text = Aye, she was that happy
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Naw, she was that cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t10:o4:1
# text = Naw, she was that cross
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Naw | that cross |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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