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title: Was the lad Childe Wynd well brave, or just lucky? — English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the lad Childe Wynd well brave, or just lucky? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

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Was the lad Childe Wynd well brave, or just lucky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lad

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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/1970-pg7439-part29/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t7:1
# text = Was the lad Childe Wynd well brave, or just lucky?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the lad |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Well brave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t7:o1:1
# text = Well brave
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t7:o2:1
# text = Bold
1	Bold	bold	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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Brave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t7:o3:1
# text = Brave
1	Brave	brave	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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Very lucky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1970-pg7439-part29:t7:o4:1
# text = Very lucky
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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