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title: Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetro… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife? Test 8 · ★ 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
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# Test 8 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Habetrot: a magic yarn wins…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit, laird · **What happens:** do, say, want · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t8:1
# text = Whit did the laird say he wanted in his wife?
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	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the laird |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | past | laird |  |  |  |  | in laird's wife | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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A kind heart, aye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t8:o1:1
# text = A kind heart, aye
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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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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A guid spinner, aye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t8:o2:1
# text = A guid spinner, aye
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guid	guid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spinner	spinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A guid cook, a guid spinner, and a lass who sings and dances bonnie at the fair

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t8:o3:1
# text = A guid cook, a guid spinner, and a lass who sings and dances bonnie at the fair
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guid	guid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	guid	guid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spinner	spinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a lass |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **dance** | present | a lass *not said here* | bonnie |  | the fair |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bonnie=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A guid spinner who can spin flax white and fine, and keep his house warm and bright

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:262-pg14241-part29:t8:o4:1
# text = A guid spinner who can spin flax white and fine, and keep his house warm and bright
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guid	guid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spinner	spinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | can | a guid spinner | flax |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | a guid spinner *not said here* | spinner's house |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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