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title: Be honest, did the brothers ride fast or slow? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, did the brothers ride fast or slow? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

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Be honest, did the brothers ride fast or slow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** honest brothers · **What happens:** be, ride

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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/819-pg27200-part30/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t12:1
# text = Be honest, did the brothers ride fast or slow?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | present | the honest brothers |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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slowly, not talking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t12:o1:1
# text = slowly, not talking
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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quietly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t12:o2:1
# text = quietly
1	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fast and without a word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t12:o3:1
# text = fast and without a word
1	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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slowly and in silence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t12:o4:1
# text = slowly and in silence
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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