--- title: Who had to hold the Duchess up on the horse, mate? — Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percin… · tree and pragmatics description: Who had to hold the Duchess up on the horse, mate? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1541-pg540-part38/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1541-pg540-part38/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc… Who had to hold the Duchess up on the horse, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have, hold up · **To what, where:** Duchess This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the 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/1541-pg540-part38/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t10:1 # text = Who had to hold the Duchess up on the horse, mate? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | | the Duchess | | | | on the horse and mate | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot duchess=Theme | 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} eight officers of the royal household guard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t10:o1:1 # text = eight officers of the royal household guard 1 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the whole crowd of courtiers from the hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t10:o2:1 # text = the whole crowd of courtiers from the hall 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} nine stable hands ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t10:o3:1 # text = nine stable hands 1 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} eight officers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t10:o4:1 # text = eight officers 1 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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