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title: Mate, what did the broke Horse end up pulling? — Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the broke Horse end up pulling? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

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Mate, what did the broke Horse end up pulling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, end up, pull · **To what, where:** broke Horse

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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/399-pg21-part20/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t14:1
# text = Mate, what did the broke Horse end up pulling?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	broke	broke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | the broke Horse |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end up** | present | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | Mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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A dungcart full of manure from the stables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t14:o1:1
# text = A dungcart full of manure from the stables
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dungcart	dungcart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	manure	manure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A heavy sack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t14:o2:1
# text = A heavy sack
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A hay wagon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t14:o3:1
# text = A hay wagon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A dungcart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:399-pg21-part20:t14:o4:1
# text = A dungcart
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dungcart	dungcart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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