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title: Whit wis lyin oan the bushes that mornin? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deird… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit wis lyin oan the bushes that mornin? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

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Whit wis lyin oan the bushes that mornin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wis lyin, that · **What happens:** oan, mornin · **To what, where:** bushes

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1994 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden girl is found by a lost hunter, and the king sets out to take her» 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/1994-pg7885-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t11:1
# text = Whit wis lyin oan the bushes that mornin?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	lyin	lyin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	oan	oan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mornin	mornin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oan** | present | wis lyin | the bushes and mornin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mornin** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | 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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frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = frost
1	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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mist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = mist
1	mist	mist	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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the silver morning dew on the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = the silver morning dew on the grass
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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dew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = dew
1	dew	dew	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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