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title: Bare cool, what was the Rocking Horse scared of? — Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Pur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare cool, what was the Rocking Horse scared of? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» of the books course of Mova's primary school, w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

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Bare cool, what was the Rocking Horse scared of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rocking Horse · **What happens:** be, scare

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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/636-pg23661-part4/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t7:1
# text = Bare cool, what was the Rocking Horse scared of?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Rocking	Rocking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Horse	Horse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scare** | past | the Rocking Horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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Snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = Snakes
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = Wolves
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Dragons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = Dragons
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Dragons and the Manticora who lived in the book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = Dragons and the Manticora who lived in the book
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Dragons and the Manticora |  |  | the book |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location |

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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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