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title: Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

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Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Whit, Johnny · **What happens:** do, sword

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» 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/246-pg14241-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t11:1
# text = Whit did Johnny ca his auld sword?
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	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Whit |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sword** | can | Johnny |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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An auld spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = An auld spear
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spear	spear	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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A rusty spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = A rusty spear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A roosty sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = A roosty sword
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	roosty	roosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sword	sword	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 roosty auld sword fae his faither

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = A roosty auld sword fae his faither
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	roosty	roosty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	auld	auld	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	fae	fae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	faither	faither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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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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