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title: What was the wee boy like at bedtime? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the wee boy like at bedtime? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» of the books course of Mova'
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# Test 5 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

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What was the wee boy like at bedtime?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wee boy · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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/237-pg14241-part4/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t5:1
# text = What was the wee boy like at bedtime?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the wee boy like bedtime |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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wee and quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t5:o1:1
# text = wee and quiet
1	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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greetin' and clingin' tae his mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t5:o2:1
# text = greetin' and clingin' tae his mum
1	greetin	greetin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	clingin	clingin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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dead stubborn, he just wouldnae budge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t5:o3:1
# text = dead stubborn, he just wouldnae budge
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	wouldnae	wouldnae	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	budge	budge	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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always fussin' and wantin' a story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t5:o4:1
# text = always fussin' and wantin' a story
1	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	fussin	fussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wantin	wantin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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