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title: like, what's a farrier, is that a kind of cow? — The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servant… · tree and pragmatics
description: like, what's a farrier, is that a kind of cow? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

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like, what's a farrier, is that a kind of cow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kind, farrier · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** farrier, kind

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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/630-pg236-part31/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t5:1
# text = like, what's a farrier, is that a kind of cow?
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	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	farrier	farrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a kind | a farrier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a farrier | a kind |  |  |  | of cow | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a smith who shoes horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t5:o1:1
# text = a smith who shoes horses
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **horse** |  | a smith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a soldier who rides a mule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t5:o2:1
# text = a soldier who rides a mule
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | a soldier | a mule |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cow that pulls the guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t5:o3:1
# text = a cow that pulls the guns
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | a cow | the guns |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:630-pg236-part31:t5:o4:1
# text = a horse doctor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	doctor	doctor	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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