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title: Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like? — English Fairy Tales, The King of Engla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

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Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** horse zoom

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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/254-pg14241-part21/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t11:1
# text = Mad, how fast does the horse zoom, like?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	zoom	zoom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the horse zoom |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zoom=Eventuality |

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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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As swift as an arrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t11:o1:1
# text = As swift as an arrow
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like a hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t11:o2:1
# text = Like a hare
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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As fast as the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t11:o3:1
# text = As fast as the wind
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Faster than any horse in all the king's stables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:254-pg14241-part21:t11:o4:1
# text = Faster than any horse in all the king's stables
1	Faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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