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title: Yo, what made the pony go mental and bolt? — Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what made the pony go mental and bolt? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 3 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

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Yo, what made the pony go mental and bolt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pony · **What happens:** make, go, bolt · **To what, where:** pony

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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/1301-pg3454-part26/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t3:1
# text = Yo, what made the pony go mental and bolt?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bolt	bolt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the pony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the pony *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bolt** | infinitive | the pony *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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He whacked it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = He whacked it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past | He | it |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Moti shouted at it loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = Moti shouted at it loudly
1	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Moti |  |  | it |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A snake bit it there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = A snake bit it there
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Moti whacked it with his staff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1301-pg3454-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = Moti whacked it with his staff
1	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past | Moti | it |  |  |  | with Moti's staff | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with staff=Instrument |

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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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