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title: Whit did the herd pull oot his pocket? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the herd pull oot his pocket? Test 8 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

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Whit did the herd pull oot his pocket?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t8:1
# text = Whit did the herd pull oot his pocket?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
6	oot	oot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull** | infinitive | the herd | oot |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent oot=Theme pocket=Result |

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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 handfu o gold coins and the ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t8:o1:1
# text = a handfu o gold coins and the ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handfu	handfu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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the ring and earrings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t8:o2:1
# text = the ring and earrings
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	earrings	earring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the gold ring and a pair o earrings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t8:o3:1
# text = the gold ring and a pair o earrings
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	_
8	earrings	earring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the gold brooch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t8:o4:1
# text = the gold brooch
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	brooch	brooch	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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