--- title: Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.»… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics description: Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.» What is «wee man»? Test 3 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/t3/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [A stranger's story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/) / t3 # Test 3 · A stranger's story Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.» What is «wee man»? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** carry, be · **To what, where:** bag, car This is test 3 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» of the everyday 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/everyday/446-a-strangers-story/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:1 # text = Glasgow man: «Here, wee man, a fiver to carry this bag to that car.» 1 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fiver fiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | this bag | | that car | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to car=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is «wee man»? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:2 # text = What is «wee man»? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Old friend ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:o1:1 # text = Old friend 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Rich man ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:o2:1 # text = Rich man 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Tall man ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:o3:1 # text = Tall man 1 Tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Little boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:446-a-strangers-story:t3:o4:1 # text = Little boy 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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