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title: Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff? Test 2 · ★ 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 opti
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# Test 2 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

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Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, wee tailor · **What happens:** wi, go, job · **To what, where:** job, aff

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t2:1
# text = Whit wis the wee tailor's job afore he went aff?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	afore	afore	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	aff	aff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | Whit | the wee tailor's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Whit | aff |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aff=Theme |
| 3 | **job** |  | the wee tailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Smith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t2:o1:1
# text = Smith
1	Smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Tailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t2:o2:1
# text = Tailor
1	Tailor	tailor	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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Blacksmith's helper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t2:o3:1
# text = Blacksmith's helper
1	Blacksmith	Blacksmith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	helper	helper	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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Miner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t2:o4:1
# text = Miner
1	Miner	miner	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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