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title: real talk, was that bull head flying far? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, was that bull head flying far? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

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real talk, was that bull head flying far?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real talk · **What happens:** fly

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» 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/2049-pg976-part8/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t8:1
# text = real talk, was that bull head flying far?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · progressive | real talk |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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six yards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t8:o1:1
# text = six yards
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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six yards away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t8:o2:1
# text = six yards away
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twelve yards off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t8:o3:1
# text = twelve yards off
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	yards	yards	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nine yards away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2049-pg976-part8:t8:o4:1
# text = nine yards away
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	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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