---
title: Okay but the King literally couldn't tell the horses apart? — Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth win… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay but the King literally couldn't tell the horses apart? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1562 «Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1562-pg540-part59/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth win…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1562-pg540-part59/) / t4

# Test 4 · ★ · Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Okay but the King literally couldn't tell the horses apart?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not tell · **To what, where:** horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1562 «Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second 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/1562-pg540-part59/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1562-pg540-part59:t4:1
# text = Okay but the King literally couldn't tell the horses apart?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | the King |  | the horses |  |  | apart, literally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one was taller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1562-pg540-part59:t4:o1:1
# text = one was taller
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they had different names

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1562-pg540-part59:t4:o2:1
# text = they had different names
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | different names |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
not a single hair of difference

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1562-pg540-part59:t4:o3:1
# text = not a single hair of difference
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one had a bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1562-pg540-part59:t4:o4:1
# text = one had a bell
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | one | a bell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth win…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1562-pg540-part59/t3/)
- next →: [Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth win…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1562-pg540-part59/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Norse Tales, Dapplegrim: the youth wins the Princess with two tricks and a second horse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1562-pg540-part59/)