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title: Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 7 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

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Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey, horses · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** hill

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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/1491-pg503-part78/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t7:1
# text = Lowkey, what did the horses do on the hill?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	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	6	det	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the horses |  |  | the hill |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Fell over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t7:o1:1
# text = Fell over
1	Fell	fell	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Slid right back down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t7:o2:1
# text = Slid right back down
1	Slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Slipped right back down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t7:o3:1
# text = Slipped right back down
1	Slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Stopped dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t7:o4:1
# text = Stopped dead
1	Stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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