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title: Whit did the wee lass ride aff on, like? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Bla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the wee lass ride aff on, like? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

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Whit did the wee lass ride aff on, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** wee ride aff

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» 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/238-pg14241-part5/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t2:1
# text = Whit did the wee lass ride aff on, like?
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	7	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	aff	aff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 wee ride aff |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aff=Eventuality |

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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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A bull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t2:o1:1
# text = A bull
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	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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Cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t2:o2:1
# text = Cow
1	Cow	cow	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 stag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t2:o3:1
# text = A stag
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	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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Fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t2:o4:1
# text = Fox
1	Fox	fox	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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