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title: Whit were the beasts like, pal, when the wee lad walked past them? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit were the beasts like, pal, when the wee lad walked past them? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

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Whit were the beasts like, pal, when the wee lad walked past them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Whit, wee lad · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** beasts

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king's daughter» 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/1503-pg503-part90/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t4:1
# text = Whit were the beasts like, pal, when the wee lad walked past them?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pal	pal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	past	past	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Whit | the beasts |  |  |  | pal *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the wee lad |  |  |  |  | past beasts *= beast* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Two heads and four horns each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t4:o1:1
# text = Two heads and four horns each
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Two heids each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t4:o2:1
# text = Two heids each
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	heids	heid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two heids an' four horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t4:o3:1
# text = Two heids an' four horns
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	heids	heid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Big and green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t4:o4:1
# text = Big and green
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	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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