--- title: Wait, what pulls the Fairy's chariot this time? — Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what pulls the Fairy's chariot this time? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1424-pg503-part11/t2/) [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/) / [Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1424-pg503-part11/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries… Wait, what pulls the Fairy's chariot this time? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, pull · **To what, where:** chariot This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save 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/1424-pg503-part11/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t2:1 # text = Wait, what pulls the Fairy's chariot this time? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | present | | the Fairy's chariot | | | time | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme | 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} swans, not geese ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t2:o1:1 # text = swans, not geese 1 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} winged horses from the sea-king's stables ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t2:o2:1 # text = winged horses from the sea-king's stables 1 winged wing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wing** | past | | horses | | the sea king's stables | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from stable=Trajectory | ### Option 3 {#o3} a team of griffins with bat wings and hooves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t2:o3:1 # text = a team of griffins with bat wings and hooves 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 griffins griffin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hooves hoove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} swans, not bats ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t2:o4:1 # text = swans, not bats 1 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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