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title: so the dwarf rode in on what, like bats and ravens? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printani… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the dwarf rode in on what, like bats and ravens? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

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so the dwarf rode in on what, like bats and ravens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dwarf · **What happens:** ride

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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/1510-pg540-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t3:1
# text = so the dwarf rode in on what, like bats and ravens?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the dwarf |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location |

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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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swans and peacocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = swans and peacocks
1	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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flying snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = flying snakes
1	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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bats and ravens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = bats and ravens
1	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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black horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = black horses
1	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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