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title: Whit did Malcolm dae tae hide his wean? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deird… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did Malcolm dae tae hide his wean? Test 2 · ★ 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 and o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, part 1: a hidden…

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Whit did Malcolm dae tae hide his wean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do, hide, wean · **To what, where:** Malcolm

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t2:1
# text = Whit did Malcolm dae tae hide his wean?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
5	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	mark	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wean	wean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit | Malcolm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malcolm=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hide** | infinitive | Whit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wean** | infinitive | Whit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |

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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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hid her in a cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t2:o1:1
# text = hid her in a cave
1	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past |  | her *= she* |  | a cave |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in cave=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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took her tae a hill far awa wi her nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t2:o2:1
# text = took her tae a hill far awa wi her nurse
1	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	wi	wi	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  |  | her *= she* |  |  | tae a hill; wi her nurse; awa *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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pit her oot the hoose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t2:o3:1
# text = pit her oot the hoose
1	pit	pit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	oot	oot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hoose	hoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pit** | imperative | you *not said here* | her oot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sent her tae a hill wi the nurse an men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1994-pg7885-part13:t2:o4:1
# text = sent her tae a hill wi the nurse an men
1	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	wi	wi	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past |  | a men | her *= she* |  |  | tae a hill; wi the nurse | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination man=Theme |

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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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