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title: Where did they ride tae, like? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did they ride tae, like? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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Where did they ride tae, like?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t7:1
# text = Where did they ride tae, like?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · do-support | they | tae |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tae=Theme |

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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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Tae the auld mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t7:o1:1
# text = Tae the auld mill
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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Tae a green hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t7:o2:1
# text = Tae a green hill
1	Tae	Tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tae a dark forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t7:o3:1
# text = Tae a dark forest
1	Tae	Tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tae the hame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t7:o4:1
# text = Tae the hame
1	Tae	Tae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hame	hame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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