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title: Who gied the advice tae save him? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who gied the advice tae save him? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

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Who gied the advice tae save him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** gi, save · **To what, where:** advice, him

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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/2008-pg7885-part27/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t11:1
# text = Who gied the advice tae save him?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gied	gi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	tae	tae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	mark	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gi** | past |  | the advice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 {#o1}

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an auld beggar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t11:o1:1
# text = an auld beggar
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t11:o2:1
# text = a priest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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an auld soothsayer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t11:o3:1
# text = an auld soothsayer
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 wise herdsman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t11:o4:1
# text = a wise herdsman
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	herdsman	herdsman	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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