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title: Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin? Test 7 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

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Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, rebels · **What happens:** do, see · **To what, where:** rebels, Whit

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t7:1
# text = Whit did the rebels dae when they saw it comin?
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	4	det	_	_
4	rebels	rebel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	flat:foreign	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	comin	comin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	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 rebels |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | past | rebels *= rebel* | Whit |  |  |  | comin *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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Hid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = Hid
1	Hid	hid	INTJ	UH	_	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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Ran hame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = Ran hame
1	Ran	ran	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hame	hame	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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Fled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = Fled
1	Fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Ran away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = Ran away
1	Ran	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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