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title: The Big Women wanted the king's bay colt, naw? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Big Women wanted the king's bay colt, naw? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

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The Big Women wanted the king's bay colt, naw?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Big Women · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** bay colt

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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/1146-pg3027-part12/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t5:1
# text = The Big Women wanted the king's bay colt, naw?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	bay	bay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	naw	naw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the Big Women | the king's bay colt and naw |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colt=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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the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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 grey mare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = the grey mare
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the bay colt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = the bay colt
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bay	bay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	colt	colt	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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a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t5: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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