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title: Hauf the Elves sang a wee song at the end, did they no? — Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hauf the Elves sang a wee song at the end, did they no? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 259 «Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight back from Elfland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was r
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# Test 5 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hauf the Elves sang a wee song at the end, did they no?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hauf · **What happens:** sing, do · **To what, where:** wee song, end

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 259 «Scottish Fairy Tales, Tamlane: Burd Janet wins her knight back from Elfland» 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/259-pg14241-part26/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:259-pg14241-part26:t5:1
# text = Hauf the Elves sang a wee song at the end, did they no?
1	Hauf	Hauf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Elves	Elf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Hauf and the Elves | a wee song |  |  | at the end |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Hauf |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, aboot the knight they lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:259-pg14241-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = Aye, aboot the knight they lost
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	aboot	aboot	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | they | the knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Naw, it wis aboot the bairn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:259-pg14241-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = Naw, it wis aboot the bairn
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	aboot	aboot	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bairn	bairn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | Naw |  |  |  |  | aboot the bairn | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, a wee yin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:259-pg14241-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = Aye, a wee yin
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	yin	yin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Naw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:259-pg14241-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = Naw
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	NNP	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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