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title: Whit did the lad use tae chop aff the Etin's heads, dude? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the lad use tae chop aff the Etin's heads, dude? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

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Whit did the lad use tae chop aff the Etin's heads, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** tae chop aff

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t8:1
# text = Whit did the lad use tae chop aff the Etin's heads, dude?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	compound	_	_
7	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	aff	aff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · do-support | Whit | tae chop aff |  |  |  |  | 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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A saw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t8:o1:1
# text = A saw
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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An axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t8:o2:1
# text = An axe
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t8:o3:1
# text = A rock
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A pin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t8:o4:1
# text = A pin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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