--- title: Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and T… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2011-pg7885-part30/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu… Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mare This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t9:1 # text = Was the mare a normal horse, like, bro? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 like like INTJ UH _ 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the mare | | | | a normal horse *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | 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} Yeah, a black pony with a leather saddle, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t9:o1:1 # text = Yeah, a black pony with a leather saddle, mate 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, a grey donkey with a wooden saddle, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t9:o2:1 # text = Nah, a grey donkey with a wooden saddle, bro 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Nah, mate, a magical milk-white mare that could fly over the lake and a golden saddle made by the henwife's own hands ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t9:o3:1 # text = Nah, mate, a magical milk-white mare that could fly over the lake and a golden saddle made by the henwife's own hands 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 magical magical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 henwife henwife NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | could | a magical white mare | | | the lake and a golden saddle | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Location | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a golden saddle *not said here* | | | | by the henwife's own hands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nah, a milk-white mare with a golden saddle, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2011-pg7885-part30:t9:o4:1 # text = Nah, a milk-white mare with a golden saddle, bro 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` 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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