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title: No cap, how fast did the cow say she could run? — Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Beca… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, how fast did the cow say she could run? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 9 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

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No cap, how fast did the cow say she could run?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap, cow · **What happens:** do, say, run · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore 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/1233-pg3282-part34/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t9:1
# text = No cap, how fast did the cow say she could run?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the cow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run** | could | cow |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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quite quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t9:o1:1
# text = quite quick
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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twice as fast as them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t9:o2:1
# text = twice as fast as them
1	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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three times as quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t9:o3:1
# text = three times as quick
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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as the horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t9:o4:1
# text = as the horse
1	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	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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