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title: Whit kind o' helper wis the horse? — Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whit kind o' helper wis the horse? Test 12 · ★ 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 option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

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Whit kind o' helper wis the horse?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t12:1
# text = Whit kind o' helper wis the horse?
1	Whit	whit	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	wis	wi	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wi** | present | whit kind of helper | the horse |  |  |  |  | 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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a magic horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t12:o1:1
# text = a magic horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a talking beast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t12:o2:1
# text = a talking beast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t12:o3:1
# text = a dog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1143-pg3027-part9:t12:o4:1
# text = a horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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