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title: Whit did the laird see through the stone? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the laird see through the stone? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 262 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's bride, and he forbids her the spinning-wheel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

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Whit did the laird see through the stone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, laird · **What happens:** do, see · **To what, where:** laird, stone

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 262 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins a laird's bride, and he forbids her the spinning-wheel» 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/262-pg14241-part29/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t11:1
# text = Whit did the laird see through the stone?
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	laird	laird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 laird |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laird=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | the laird *not said here* |  |  | the stone |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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The laird's own mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t11:o1:1
# text = The laird's own mother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	laird	laird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mother	mother	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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Habetrot and her wicked kin dancing about the fire in the cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t11:o2:1
# text = Habetrot and her wicked kin dancing about the fire in the cave
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund | her wicked kin *not said here* |  |  | the cave |  | about the fire | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fire=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Habetrot spinning yarn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t11:o3:1
# text = Habetrot spinning yarn
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Habetrot jumping and singing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t11:o4:1
# text = Habetrot jumping and singing
1	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | gerund | Habetrot |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Habetrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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