--- title: Wait, how fast was she going, though? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and T… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, how fast was she going, though? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu… Wait, how fast was she going, though? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** wait, go This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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/2011-pg7885-part30/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t12:1 # text = Wait, how fast was she going, though? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 though though SCONJ IN _ 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · progressive | she | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Like a rocket, mate, totally wild ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t12:o1:1 # text = Like a rocket, mate, totally wild 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 totally totally ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Quicker than a horse, bro, sound ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t12:o2:1 # text = Quicker than a horse, bro, sound 1 Quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Faster than the wind, like mad, fam ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t12:o3:1 # text = Faster than the wind, like mad, fam 1 Faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Super fast, fam ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t12:o4:1 # text = Super fast, fam 1 Super super ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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