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title: Dead wee detail: whit did the herd wear at the wedding? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead wee detail: whit did the herd wear at the wedding? Test 9 · ★ 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 quest
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# Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

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Dead wee detail: whit did the herd wear at the wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dead wee detail, herd · **What happens:** do, wear · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t9:1
# text = Dead wee detail: whit did the herd wear at the wedding?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dead wee detail and whit |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wear** | present | the herd |  |  | the wedding |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at wedding=Source |

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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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the princess's green gown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t9:o1:1
# text = the princess's green gown
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gown	gown	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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a plain brown frock fae the dairy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t9:o2:1
# text = a plain brown frock fae the dairy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fae	fae	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fae** | past | a plain brown frock | the dairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the giant's golden dress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t9:o3:1
# text = the giant's golden dress
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dress	dress	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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the sea-maiden's silver frock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2008-pg7885-part27:t9:o4:1
# text = the sea-maiden's silver frock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	frock	frock	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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