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title: Whit's in the magpie's nest up the fir tree? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit's in the magpie's nest up the fir tree? Test 12 · ★ 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 each optio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

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Whit's in the magpie's nest up the fir tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t12:1
# text = Whit's in the magpie's nest up the fir tree?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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five eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t12:o1:1
# text = five eggs
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five speckled eggs o blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t12:o2:1
# text = five speckled eggs o blue
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	speckled	speckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speckle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five eggs and a dead bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t12:o3:1
# text = five eggs and a dead bird
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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three eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t12:o4:1
# text = three eggs
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	eggs	egg	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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