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title: mate, what is a diligence, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, what is a diligence, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

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mate, what is a diligence, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** diligence

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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/283-pg1597-part10/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t10:1
# text = mate, what is a diligence, like?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	diligence	diligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mate and a diligence | a diligence |  |  |  |  | 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 -->
an old stagecoach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = an old stagecoach
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a large old stagecoach full of passengers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = a large old stagecoach full of passengers
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a horse train

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = a horse train
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
an old rattling stagecoach pulled by horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:283-pg1597-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = an old rattling stagecoach pulled by horses
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rattling	rattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stagecoach	stagecoach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | a old rattling stagecoach *not said here* |  |  |  | by horses | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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