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title: wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 3 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

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wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, fiery horse · **What happens:** wait, happen, kick · **To what, where:** hanky

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» 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/1488-pg503-part75/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t3:1
# text = wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kick** | past | the fiery horse | the hanky |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient |

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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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The rider fell off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t3:o1:1
# text = The rider fell off
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | past | the rider |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It tore a hole and the horse bolted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t3:o2:1
# text = It tore a hole and the horse bolted
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tore** | past | It | a hole and the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bolt** | participle |  | a hole and the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It made a hole and the rider fell off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t3:o3:1
# text = It made a hole and the rider fell off
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | It | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hole=Product |
| 2 | **fall off** | past | the rider |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It kicked the hanky and nobody fell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t3:o4:1
# text = It kicked the hanky and nobody fell
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past | It | the hanky |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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