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title: Where did the fairy lass come from? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the fairy lass come from? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

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Where did the fairy lass come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fairy lass · **What happens:** come

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t6:1
# text = Where did the fairy lass come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | the fairy lass |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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the chimney, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t6:o1:1
# text = the chimney, mate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t6:o2:1
# text = the window
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	window	window	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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from the fire grate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t6:o3:1
# text = from the fire grate
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	grate	grate	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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from the wee lum top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:237-pg14241-part4:t6:o4:1
# text = from the wee lum top
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	lum	lum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	top	top	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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