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title: No cap, what bird was the horse at the bridge? — fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthi… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what bird was the horse at the bridge? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1909 «fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wins a second test and the pair flee the Magician» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 6 · ★ · fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wi…

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No cap, what bird was the horse at the bridge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** bird, be · **To what, where:** horse, bridge

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1909 «fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wins a second test and the pair flee the Magician» 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/1909-pg7277-part46/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1909-pg7277-part46:t6:1
# text = No cap, what bird was the horse at the bridge?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bird** |  | no cap and bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | no cap and bird | the horse |  | the bridge |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A blackbird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1909-pg7277-part46:t6:o1:1
# text = A blackbird
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blackbird	blackbird	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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A blackbird, sleek and glossy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1909-pg7277-part46:t6:o2:1
# text = A blackbird, sleek and glossy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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A big black bird on the rail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1909-pg7277-part46:t6:o3:1
# text = A big black bird on the rail
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A wood pigeon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1909-pg7277-part46:t6:o4:1
# text = A wood pigeon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pigeon	pigeon	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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