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title: test: Ngl, what was that horse actually? — Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse h… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Ngl, what was that horse actually? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back t…

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test: Ngl, what was that horse actually?

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

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» 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/1187-pg3027-part53/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:t9:1
# text = test: Ngl, what was that horse actually?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | horse |  |  |  | actually *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the soul of a man Jose helped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:t9:o1:1
# text = the soul of a man Jose helped
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Jose	Jose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | the soul of a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a spirit from the dark river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:t9:o2:1
# text = a spirit from the dark river
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cursed prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:t9:o3:1
# text = a cursed prince
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the ghost of an old servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1187-pg3027-part53:t9:o4:1
# text = the ghost of an old servant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ghost** |  |  | a old servant |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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