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title: Whit's a bairn doing in the Red Etin tale, just wondering? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit's a bairn doing in the Red Etin tale, just wondering? Test 11 · ★ 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, wit
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# Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the lady…

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Whit's a bairn doing in the Red Etin tale, just wondering?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, bairn · **What happens:** be, do, wonder · **To what, where:** bairn, Etin tale

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t11:1
# text = Whit's a bairn doing in the Red Etin tale, just wondering?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
9	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whit | a bairn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | a bairn *not said here* |  |  | the Etin tale |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | a bairn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Two widows, a cake, and a bairn wha's aw fingers were bruised

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t11:o1:1
# text = Two widows, a cake, and a bairn wha's aw fingers were bruised
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wha	wha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	aw	aw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bruise** | past · passive | Two widows and a cake *not said here* | a bairn wha's aw fingers |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A knight and a stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t11:o2:1
# text = A knight and a stone
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	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	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two dogs and a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t11:o3:1
# text = Two dogs and a ring
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two widows and a cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1502-pg503-part89:t11:o4:1
# text = Two widows and a cake
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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