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title: Bro, what did the troop-horse brag his cousin was? — Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the troop-horse brag his cousin was? Test 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 pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

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Bro, what did the troop-horse brag his cousin was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** horse brag, cousin

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This is test 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t2:1
# text = Bro, what did the troop-horse brag his cousin was?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brag	brag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the horse brag |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brag=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | his cousin |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a racehorse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t2:o1:1
# text = a racehorse
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	racehorse	racehorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a champion of the track

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t2:o2:1
# text = a champion of the track
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a Melbourne Cup favourite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t2:o3:1
# text = a Melbourne Cup favourite
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	favourite	favourite	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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Carbine, Melbourne Cup winner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:631-pg236-part32:t2:o4:1
# text = Carbine, Melbourne Cup winner
1	Carbine	carbine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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