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title: how did the bull jump, was it hard or what — Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the bull jump, was it hard or what Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 7 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…

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how did the bull jump, was it hard or what

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** bull jump

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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/2055-pg976-part14/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t7:1
# text = how did the bull jump, was it hard or what
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the bull jump |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

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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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softly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t7:o1:1
# text = softly
1	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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very high in the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t7:o2:1
# text = very high in the air
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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light as a feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t7:o3:1
# text = light as a feather
1	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2055-pg976-part14:t7:o4:1
# text = very high
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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