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title: who was driving that posh carriage, then? — Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26:… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was driving that posh carriage, then? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

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who was driving that posh carriage, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** drive

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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/1889-pg7277-part26/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t8:1
# text = who was driving that posh carriage, then?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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a coachman, quite good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t8:o1:1
# text = a coachman, quite good
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a big spaniel, dead skilled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t8:o2:1
# text = a big spaniel, dead skilled
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skilled	skilled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a monkey, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t8:o3:1
# text = a monkey, mate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little fairy, very skilled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t8:o4:1
# text = a little fairy, very skilled
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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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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