---
title: Did the lady ride the colt with Peronnik or did she walk? — Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the lady ride the colt with Peronnik or did she walk? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1320-pg3454-part45/t11/)

<!-- 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/) / [Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1320-pg3454-part45/) / t11

# Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the lady ride the colt with Peronnik or did she walk?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** ride, walk · **To what, where:** colt

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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/1320-pg3454-part45/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1320-pg3454-part45:t11:1
# text = Did the lady ride the colt with Peronnik or did she walk?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · do-support | the lady | the colt |  |  |  | with Peronnik | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past · do-support | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She jumped up behind him on the colt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1320-pg3454-part45:t11:o1:1
# text = She jumped up behind him on the colt
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | She |  |  | the colt |  | behind him *= he* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She climbed onto the lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1320-pg3454-part45:t11:o2:1
# text = She climbed onto the lion
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | She |  |  |  |  | onto the lion | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto lion=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She jumped up behind him on the colt and held him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1320-pg3454-part45:t11:o3:1
# text = She jumped up behind him on the colt and held him
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | She |  |  | the colt |  | behind him *= he* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hold** | past | She *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She sat up in front of him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1320-pg3454-part45:t11:o4:1
# text = She sat up in front of him
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | past | She |  |  | front of him |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |

<!-- 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: [Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool,…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1320-pg3454-part45/t10/)
- next →: [Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool,…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1320-pg3454-part45/t12/)
- ↑ back to [Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1320-pg3454-part45/)

