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title: Yo, what did the Fairy's ride look like? — Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the Fairy's ride look like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

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Yo, what did the Fairy's ride look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ride, Fairy · **What happens:** look, ride

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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/1877-pg7277-part14/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t4:1
# text = Yo, what did the Fairy's ride look like?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the Fairy's ride |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ride** |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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a plain cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t4:o1:1
# text = a plain cart
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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green rushes, dead cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t4:o2:1
# text = green rushes, dead cool
1	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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silver wood, dead cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t4:o3:1
# text = silver wood, dead cool
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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just a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1877-pg7277-part14:t4:o4:1
# text = just a cart
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cart	cart	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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