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title: Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Bla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan? Test 7 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…

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Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** couldnae, climb · **To what, where:** glassy wan

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t7:1
# text = Whit kind of hill couldnae she climb, the glassy wan?
1	Whit	whit	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	couldnae	couldnae	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	glassy	glassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wan	wan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **couldnae** | present | whit kind of hill |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | kind | the glassy wan |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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A hill made o glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t7:o1:1
# text = A hill made o glass
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	o	o	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make o** | participle | a hill *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glass=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A hill o ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t7:o2:1
# text = A hill o ice
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bonnie hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t7:o3:1
# text = A bonnie hill
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hill	hill	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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A muckle hill o' smooth shinin glass that naebody can dae

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:238-pg14241-part5:t7:o4:1
# text = A muckle hill o' smooth shinin glass that naebody can dae
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	muckle	muckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	det	_	_
10	naebody	naebody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	_
```

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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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