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title: Lol, what did the Prince shove in the horse's gob? — Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the Prince shove in the horse's gob? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

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Lol, what did the Prince shove in the horse's gob?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Prince shove, gob

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» 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/1442-pg503-part29/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t4:1
# text = Lol, what did the Prince shove in the horse's gob?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shove	shove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	gob	gob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Prince shove |  | the horse's gob |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shove=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the blanket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = the blanket
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = the rope
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the saddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = the saddle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = the bit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	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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