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title: Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old? — Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

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Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Horse · **What happens:** do, end up, pull, be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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/157-pg11339-part27/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t7:1
# text = Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the Horse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | the Horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Horse |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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 cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t7:o1:1
# text = A cart
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A dung-cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t7:o2:1
# text = A dung-cart
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A heavy wagon filled with the farm's rotting manure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t7:o3:1
# text = A heavy wagon filled with the farm's rotting manure
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	rotting	rotting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	manure	manure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | a heavy wagon *not said here* |  |  |  | with the farm's rotting manure | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with manure=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A stone cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:157-pg11339-part27:t7:o4:1
# text = A stone cart
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cart	cart	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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