--- title: dude, why was Bucephalus so scared? — Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a f… · tree and pragmatics description: dude, why was Bucephalus so scared? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/353-pg18442-part13/t8/) [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/) / [Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/353-pg18442-part13/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take… dude, why was Bucephalus so scared? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Bucephalus This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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/353-pg18442-part13/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t8:1 # text = dude, why was Bucephalus so scared? 1 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Bucephalus Bucephalus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | dude | Bucephalus | | | | | tree rules | 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} He was scared of his own shadow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t8:o1:1 # text = He was scared of his own shadow 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | He | | | | | of his own shadow; scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shadow** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Just a horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t8:o2:1 # text = Just a horse 1 Just just ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} He hated the new stable hands ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t8:o3:1 # text = He hated the new stable hands 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hate** | past | He | the new stable hands | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} He was scared ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:353-pg18442-part13:t8:o4:1 # text = He was scared 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | He | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | **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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