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title: Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-… — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-up? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…

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Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Oi, horse · **What happens:** do, fly, be · **To what, where:** horse, whole thing

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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/222-pg128-part62/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t1:1
# text = Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-up?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Oi | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Oi *not said here* | the whole thing |  |  |  | a wind up *nmod* | 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 {#o1}

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No, it didn't

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t1:o1:1
# text = No, it didn't
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nope, walked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t1:o2:1
# text = Nope, walked
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It actually flew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t1:o3:1
# text = It actually flew
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | It |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah it sort of flew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:222-pg128-part62:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah it sort of flew
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flew	flew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** |  |  | flew |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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