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title: Whit did the prince haud when he went efter the birds? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the prince haud when he went efter the birds? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

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Whit did the prince haud when he went efter the birds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do, go · **To what, where:** prince haud, birds

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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/2018-pg7885-part37/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t10:1
# text = Whit did the prince haud when he went efter the birds?
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	5	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	haud	haud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	efter	efter	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the prince haud |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haud=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | past | Whit | the birds |  |  |  | efter *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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his bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t10:o1:1
# text = his bow
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bow	bow	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 spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t10:o2:1
# text = a spear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spear	spear	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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a rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t10:o3:1
# text = a rod
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	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 gun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t10:o4:1
# text = a gun
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gun	gun	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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