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title: Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what? — Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and…

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Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** be, chill · **To what, where:** Grani

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1585 «Norse Tales, Sigurd and Brynhild: the truth comes out and Sigurd dies» 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/1585-pg540-part82/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t8:1
# text = Was Grani the horse just chilling, or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Grani	Grani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the horse *not said here* | Grani |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | gerund | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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It fled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t8:o1:1
# text = It fled
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Went mad with grief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t8:o2:1
# text = Went mad with grief
1	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with grief; mad *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with grief=Beneficiary |

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

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Died of grief, sadly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t8:o3:1
# text = Died of grief, sadly
1	Died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of grief; sadly *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ran off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1585-pg540-part82:t8:o4:1
# text = Ran off
1	Ran	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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