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title: Was that wild horse just being a jerk when he bit Sunlight? — pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was that wild horse just being a jerk when he bit Sunlight? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 11 · ★ · pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals t…

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Was that wild horse just being a jerk when he bit Sunlight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** be, bite · **To what, where:** jerk, Sunlight

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1808 «pg641, Iliane and Sunlight, part 59: the princess steals the emperor's stud of mares» 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/1808-pg641-part59/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1808-pg641-part59:t11:1
# text = Was that wild horse just being a jerk when he bit Sunlight?
1	Was	was	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	jerk	jerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | a jerk |  |  |  | was that wild horse | tree rules |
| 2 | **bite** | past | horse | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient |

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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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Yeah, he was mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1808-pg641-part59:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he was mean
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, he was just grumpy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1808-pg641-part59:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he was just grumpy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1808-pg641-part59:t11:o3:1
# text = Nah, he was hungry
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Yeah, he hated strangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1808-pg641-part59:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he hated strangers
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | he | strangers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |

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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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