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title: «just gonna run up behind the horse and surprise it» What would most… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «just gonna run up behind the horse and surprise it» What would most likely happen? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 207 «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 3 · ★ · Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in he…

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«just gonna run up behind the horse and surprise it» What would most likely happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** run up, surprise, happen · **To what, where:** horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 207 «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology 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/biology/207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds:t3:1
# text = «just gonna run up behind the horse and surprise it» What would most likely happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	gonna	gonna	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	surprise	surprise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind the horse; gonna *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **surprise** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | horse |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing, horses see straight behind them perfectly well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing, horses see straight behind them perfectly well
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | horses |  |  |  |  | behind them *= they*; Nothing *vocative*; perfectly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It will turn and lick you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds:t3:o2:1
# text = It will turn and lick you
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lick** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent you=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It cannot see you there and may kick out in fright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds:t3:o3:1
# text = It cannot see you there and may kick out in fright
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | It | you |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kick out** | may |  |  |  | fright |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will lie down to let you ride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds:t3:o4:1
# text = It will lie down to let you ride
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | future | It |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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