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title: Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur? Test 11 · ★ 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 a
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

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Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whaur · **What happens:** chase · **To what, where:** birds, moors

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t11:1
# text = Whaur did the prince chase the birds, on the moors or whaur?
1	Whaur	Whaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	whaur	whaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past · do-support | Whaur | the birds |  | the moors or whaur |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme on moor=Trajectory |

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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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in the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t11:o1:1
# text = in the forest
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forest	forest	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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by the loch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t11:o2:1
# text = by the loch
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loch	loch	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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far awa on the moors o the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t11:o3:1
# text = far awa on the moors o the north
1	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	awa	awa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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on the moors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t11:o4:1
# text = on the moors
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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