--- title: was the Sun-Hero's horse just a regular horse or what? — Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the st… · tree and pragmatics description: was the Sun-Hero's horse just a regular horse or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1725 «Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter is frozen while the girl is saved» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1725-pg640-part49/t8/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the st…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1725-pg640-part49/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter… was the Sun-Hero's horse just a regular horse or what? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** horse This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1725 «Russian Folk-Tales, King Frost: the stepmother's daughter is frozen while the girl is saved» 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/1725-pg640-part49/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1725-pg640-part49:t8:1 # text = was the Sun-Hero's horse just a regular horse or what? 1 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Hero Hero PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 csubj _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the Sun Hero's horse | | | | | tree rules | 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} it was normal, lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1725-pg640-part49:t8:o1:1 # text = it was normal, lol 1 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 lol lol INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} it was magic and could fly, wow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1725-pg640-part49:t8:o2:1 # text = it was magic and could fly, wow 1 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 wow wow INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | magic *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fly** | could | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} it talked, ate, and ran away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1725-pg640-part49:t8:o3:1 # text = it talked, ate, and ran away 1 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | it | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | past | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run away** | past | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} it talked and never slept, mind blown ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1725-pg640-part49:t8:o4:1 # text = it talked and never slept, mind blown 1 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | it | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **sleep** | past | | mind | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **blow** | participle | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | **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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