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title: how mad were the horses, black and smoking, wild — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics
description: how mad were the horses, black and smoking, wild Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi…

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how mad were the horses, black and smoking, wild

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mad horses

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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/2069-pg976-part28/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t3:1
# text = how mad were the horses, black and smoking, wild
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mad horses |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four black horses pulled a golden chariot out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t3:o1:1
# text = four black horses pulled a golden chariot out
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | four black horses | a golden chariot |  |  |  | out *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two grey horses dragged a silver cart out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t3:o2:1
# text = two grey horses dragged a silver cart out
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag out** | past | two grey horses | a silver cart |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three white horses jumped out of the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t3:o3:1
# text = three white horses jumped out of the ground
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump out** | past | three white horses | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four black horses pulled a golden chariot out of the hole in the earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t3:o4:1
# text = four black horses pulled a golden chariot out of the hole in the earth
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | four black horses | a golden chariot |  | the hole in the earth |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme out hole=Initial\_Location |

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