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title: Which word is used to describe a wild horse without any breeding? — Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which word is used to describe a wild horse without any breeding? Exam question 2 of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 2 · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

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Which word is used to describe a wild horse without any breeding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** use, describe · **To what, where:** word, wild horse

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/631-pg236-part32/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:e2:1
# text = Which word is used to describe a wild horse without any breeding?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	breeding	breeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | which word |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **describe** | to-infinitive |  | a wild horse |  |  |  | without any breeding | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent horse=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Brumby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:e2:o1:1
# text = Brumby
1	Brumby	Brumby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mustang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:e2:o2:1
# text = Mustang
1	Mustang	Mustang	PROPN	NNP	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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Mare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:e2:o3:1
# text = Mare
1	Mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Colt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:e2:o4:1
# text = Colt
1	Colt	colt	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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