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title: Hold up, what was the King's ride, like, a sick chariot? — The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold up, what was the King's ride, like, a sick chariot? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» 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 2 · ★ · The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked,…

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Hold up, what was the King's ride, like, a sick chariot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hold up, be · **To what, where:** ride

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» 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/1866-pg7277-part3/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t2:1
# text = Hold up, what was the King's ride, like, a sick chariot?
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the King's ride and a sick chariot |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Carried by silver swans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t2:o1:1
# text = Carried by silver swans
1	Carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by silver swans | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pulled by geese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t2:o2:1
# text = Pulled by geese
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by geese | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dragged by big brown bears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t2:o3:1
# text = Dragged by big brown bears
1	Dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by big brown bears | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bear=Location |

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

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Pulled by flying frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t2:o4:1
# text = Pulled by flying frogs
1	Pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by flying frogs | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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