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title: Bruv, what stung the horse and messed everything up? — Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what stung the horse and messed everything up? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fail…

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Bruv, what stung the horse and messed everything up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** sting, mess up · **To what, where:** horse, everything

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1934 «Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 71: the Prince fails to steal the golden horse and is caught» 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/1934-pg7277-part71/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t11:1
# text = Bruv, what stung the horse and messed everything up?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	messed	mess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | past |  | the horse |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mess up** | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gadfly, annoying little thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t11:o1:1
# text = a gadfly, annoying little thing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gadfly	gadfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a horsefly, proper annoying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t11:o2:1
# text = a horsefly, proper annoying
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horsefly	horsefly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hornet, really irritating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t11:o3:1
# text = a hornet, really irritating
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	irritating	irritate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **irritate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gadfly, a really annoying little thing that buzzed around the stable and messed everything up

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1934-pg7277-part71:t11:o4:1
# text = a gadfly, a really annoying little thing that buzzed around the stable and messed everything up
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gadfly	gadfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	buzzed	buzz	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	messed	mess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | past | a annoying little thing |  |  | the stable |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stable=Location |
| 2 | **mess up** | past | a annoying little thing *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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