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title: How high did the horse go over the sea, like proper high? — Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Gu… · tree and pragmatics
description: How high did the horse go over the sea, like proper high? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1984 «Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the sheehogues to a wedding feast, and the princess is carried off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 6 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the…

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How high did the horse go over the sea, like proper high?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1984 «Irish Fairy Tales, Guleesh, part 3: Guleesh rides with the sheehogues to a wedding feast, and the princess is carried off» 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/1984-pg7885-part3/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1984-pg7885-part3:t6:1
# text = How high did the horse go over the sea, like proper high?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | the horse |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial\_Location |

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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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Very high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1984-pg7885-part3:t6:o1:1
# text = Very high
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Up over the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1984-pg7885-part3:t6:o2:1
# text = Up over the mountains
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Up into the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1984-pg7885-part3:t6:o3:1
# text = Up into the clouds
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Over trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1984-pg7885-part3:t6:o4:1
# text = Over trees
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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