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title: Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fairy playin wi

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t8:1
# text = Whit's the fairy baby playin wi, eh?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	playin	playin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Whit | the fairy playin wi |  |  |  |  | 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 ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = A ball
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	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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A wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = A wand
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wand	wand	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 shiny wand wi' stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = A shiny wand wi' stars
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 wee gold wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = A wee gold wand
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wand	wand	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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