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title: Wait, the horse was mad strong, right? — Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the horse was mad strong, right? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

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Wait, the horse was mad strong, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, horse · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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/770-pg2591-part46/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t11:1
# text = Wait, the horse was mad strong, right?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	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 | **is** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Mad strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t11:o1:1
# text = Mad strong
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Strong enough to beat the lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t11:o2:1
# text = Strong enough to beat the lion
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | to-infinitive |  | the lion |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Strong enough to pull a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t11:o3:1
# text = Strong enough to pull a cart
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:770-pg2591-part46:t11:o4:1
# text = Not really
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	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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