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title: So like, what was Trembling riding at the third Mass, yeah? — Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31:… · tree and pragmatics
description: So like, what was Trembling riding at the third Mass, yeah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

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So like, what was Trembling riding at the third Mass, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tremble, ride · **To what, where:** third Mass

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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/2012-pg7885-part31/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t1:1
# text = So like, what was Trembling riding at the third Mass, yeah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	Mass	Mass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund |  |  |  | the third Mass |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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a black horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t1:o1:1
# text = a black horse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	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 grey pony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t1:o2:1
# text = a grey pony
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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a golden-saddled white mare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t1:o3:1
# text = a golden-saddled white mare
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **saddle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bay mare with silver reins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t1:o4:1
# text = a bay mare with silver reins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bay	bay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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