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title: Whit's a peck o' silver, ye reckon? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit's a peck o' silver, ye reckon? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whit's a peck o' silver, ye reckon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, ye · **What happens:** be, reckon · **To what, where:** peck o

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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/1972-pg7439-part31/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t5:1
# text = Whit's a peck o' silver, ye reckon?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	peck	peck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whit | a peck o and silver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A muckle big reward fer anybody that sits up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t5:o1:1
# text = A muckle big reward fer anybody that sits up
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A richt guid fortune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t5:o2:1
# text = A richt guid fortune
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	richt	richt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	guid	guid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bonnie wee bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t5:o3:1
# text = A bonnie wee bag
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bonnie	bonnie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A muckle big reward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t5:o4:1
# text = A muckle big reward
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reward	reward	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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