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title: The king said the horses were shinin pure brilliant, aye? — Popular Tales of the West Highlands, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The king said the horses were shinin pure brilliant, aye? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…

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The king said the horses were shinin pure brilliant, aye?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king, horses · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t9:1
# text = The king said the horses were shinin pure brilliant, aye?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	shinin	shinin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the horses |  |  |  |  | brilliant *property* | 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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they looked fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = they looked fine
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | they |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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their skins shone brightly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = their skins shone brightly
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle | their skins |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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their coats gleamed weel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = their coats gleamed weel
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	weel	weel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle | their coats | weel |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weel=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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their hides glowed like gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1146-pg3027-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = their hides glowed like gold
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glowed	glow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | participle | their hides |  |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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