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title: Wait, why are the Hill Folk called that? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why are the Hill Folk called that? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

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Wait, why are the Hill Folk called that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Hill Folk · **What happens:** wait, be, call · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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/1983-pg7885-part2/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t9:1
# text = Wait, why are the Hill Folk called that?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	parataxis	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past | the Hill Folk | that |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |

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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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they dwell in tall grey towers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = they dwell in tall grey towers
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present | they |  |  | tall grey towers |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they are small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = they are small
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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they live in round green hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = they live in round green hills
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | they |  |  | round green hills |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they are fairies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1983-pg7885-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = they are fairies
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | fairies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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