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title: Which drink did the horse prescribe for Ian during his watch in the… — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which drink did the horse prescribe for Ian during his watch in the stable? Exam question 1 of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 1 · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Which drink did the horse prescribe for Ian during his watch in the stable?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** drink, prescribe · **To what, where:** stable

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1143-pg3027-part9/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:e1:1
# text = Which drink did the horse prescribe for Ian during his watch in the stable?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	prescribe	prescribe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present |  |  |  | the stable | during horse's watch |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prescribe** | past · do-support | the horse |  |  |  |  | for Ian | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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whey and water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:e1:o1:1
# text = whey and water
1	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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only whey and cold spring water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:e1:o2:1
# text = only whey and cold spring water
1	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ale and bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:e1:o3:1
# text = ale and bread
1	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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whey and water with honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:e1:o4:1
# text = whey and water with honey
1	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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