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title: Wait, how far did the copper knight get up? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how far did the copper knight get up? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…

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Wait, how far did the copper knight get up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, copper knight · **What happens:** wait, get up

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t8:1
# text = Wait, how far did the copper knight get up?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **get up** | past · do-support | the copper knight |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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A third of the way down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t8:o1:1
# text = A third of the way down
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A quarter of the way up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t8:o2:1
# text = A quarter of the way up
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A third of the way up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t8:o3:1
# text = A third of the way up
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nearly the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1491-pg503-part78:t8:o4:1
# text = Nearly the top
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	top	top	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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**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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