--- title: Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetro… · tree and pragmatics description: Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like? Test 12 · ★ 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 opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/262-pg14241-part29/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/262-pg14241-part29/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins… Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, mooths · **What happens:** do, look This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t12:1 # text = Whit did the spinnies' mooths look like? 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 spinnies spinny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mooths mooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Whit | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | the spinnies's mooths | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} Ugly, with long noses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t12:o1:1 # text = Ugly, with long noses 1 Ugly ugly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Ugly, the lips all twisted ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t12:o2:1 # text = Ugly, the lips all twisted 1 Ugly ugly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 twisted twisted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bonnie, with bright eyes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t12:o3:1 # text = Bonnie, with bright eyes 1 Bonnie bonnie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Ugly, the lips all twisted and the teeth all black ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t12:o4:1 # text = Ugly, the lips all twisted and the teeth all black 1 Ugly ugly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 twisted twist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | past | the lips | all | | | | all, ugly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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