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title: How far did he run wit the mare, like? — Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How far did he run wit the mare, like? Test 4 · ★ 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 and of each option; M
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# Test 4 · ★ · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

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How far did he run wit the mare, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** run

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t4:1
# text = How far did he run wit the mare, like?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	wit	wit	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  | wit the mare; far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = a field
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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thirty perches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = thirty perches
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	perches	perch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a mile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = a mile
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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twenty perches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = twenty perches
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	perches	perch	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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**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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