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title: wait, how many black horses pulled that chariot? — Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, how many black horses pulled that chariot? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 2 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…

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wait, how many black horses pulled that chariot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many black horses · **What happens:** wait, pull · **To what, where:** chariot

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» 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/504-pg22381-part10/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t2:1
# text = wait, how many black horses pulled that chariot?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **pull** | past | many black horses | that chariot |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=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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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t2:o1:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eight black horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t2:o2:1
# text = Eight black horses
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve winged steeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t2:o3:1
# text = Twelve winged steeds
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	winged	wing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wing** | past | Twelve | steeds |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme steed=Trajectory |

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

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:504-pg22381-part10:t2:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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