--- title: What is the name of the horse that the youth acquires from his broth… — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics description: What is the name of the horse that the youth acquires from his brothers? Exam question 1 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/e1/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout… What is the name of the horse that the youth acquires from his brothers? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** be, acquire · **To what, where:** name, horse This is exam question 1 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1560-pg540-part57/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e1:1 # text = What is the name of the horse that the youth acquires from his brothers? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 acquires acquire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the name | | | | of the horse | tree rules | | 2 | **acquire** | present | the youth | the horse *not said here* | | | | from youth's brothers | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from brother=Source | 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} Dapple ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e1:o1:1 # text = Dapple 1 Dapple dapple NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Dapplegrim, the wondrous grey horse of the hills ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e1:o2:1 # text = Dapplegrim, the wondrous grey horse of the hills 1 Dapplegrim Dapplegrim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 wondrous wondrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Blackfoot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e1:o3:1 # text = Blackfoot 1 Blackfoot blackfoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Dapplegrim ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e1:o4:1 # text = Dapplegrim 1 Dapplegrim Dapplegrim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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