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title: Ngl, where did the horse fly him? — Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, where did the horse fly him? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

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Ngl, where did the horse fly him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** do, fly · **To what, where:** horse

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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/180-pg128-part20/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:t6:1
# text = Ngl, where did the horse fly him?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | Ngl *not said here* | horse |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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across the desert sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:t6:o1:1
# text = across the desert sand
1	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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toward the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:t6:o2:1
# text = toward the mountains
1	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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into the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:t6:o3:1
# text = into the sea
1	into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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straight into the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:180-pg128-part20:t6:o4:1
# text = straight into the sky
1	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sky	sky	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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