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title: Whit wis the horse's advice aboot drinkin'? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit wis the horse's advice aboot drinkin'? Test 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 pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 1 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Whit wis the horse's advice aboot drinkin'?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** wi · **To what, where:** advice aboot drinkin

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t1:1
# text = Whit wis the horse's advice aboot drinkin'?
1	Whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	aboot	aboot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drinkin	drinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | Whit | advice aboot drinkin |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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ale an' mead wi' honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t1:o1:1
# text = ale an' mead wi' honey
1	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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jist ale an bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t1:o2:1
# text = jist ale an bread
1	jist	jist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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jist milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t1:o3:1
# text = jist milk
1	jist	jist	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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jist whey an watter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t1:o4:1
# text = jist whey an watter
1	jist	jist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	whey	whey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	watter	watt	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
```

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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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