---
title: what's up with the prince's horse, is it fast? — Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's up with the prince's horse, is it fast? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's up with the prince's horse, is it fast?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** horse

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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/1201-pg3282-part2/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:t9:1
# text = what's up with the prince's horse, is it fast?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fast, up *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | horse |  |  |  | with the prince's horse | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Swift as the falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:t9:o1:1
# text = Swift as the falcon
1	Swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fast as a dawn breeze over the desert sands at sunrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:t9:o2:1
# text = Fast as a dawn breeze over the desert sands at sunrise
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	sands	sand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sand** | present | a dawn breeze over the desert |  |  |  | sunrise |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, swift as the wind that blows over the hills before dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:t9:o3:1
# text = Yes, swift as the wind that blows over the hills before dawn
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | swift as the wind |  |  | the hills | dawn |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fast as a dawn breeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1201-pg3282-part2:t9:o4:1
# text = Fast as a dawn breeze
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/t8/)
- next →: [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/t10/)
- ↑ back to [Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1201-pg3282-part2/)