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title: Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

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Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** horses · **What happens:** drag · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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/1123-pg29672-part29/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t10:1
# text = Where do the horses drag him, the open sea or the endless steppe?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drag	drag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | present · do-support | the horses | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the open sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t10:o1:1
# text = the open sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	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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the endless steppe and the open sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t10:o2:1
# text = the endless steppe and the open sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the endless steppe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t10:o3:1
# text = the endless steppe
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the frozen river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t10:o4:1
# text = the frozen river
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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