--- title: Wait, what did the prince actually touch to make the horse take off? — Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the prince actually touch to make the horse take off? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/224-pg128-part64/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/224-pg128-part64/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f… Wait, what did the prince actually touch to make the horse take off? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, horse · **What happens:** wait, do, touch, make, take off · **To what, where:** prince, horse This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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/224-pg128-part64/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t5:1 # text = Wait, what did the prince actually touch to make the horse take off? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 actually actually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | | the prince | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | | 3 | **touch** | present | | | | | | actually *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | the horse | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take off** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} A peg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t5:o1:1 # text = A peg 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 peg peg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The screw, lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t5:o2:1 # text = The screw, lol 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 screw screw NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 lol lol INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The saddle, lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t5:o3:1 # text = The saddle, lol 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 lol lol INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The bridle, lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:224-pg128-part64:t5:o4:1 # text = The bridle, lol 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 lol lol INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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