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title: and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fa… — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fast? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 838 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watc…

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and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrator, light · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 838 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 49: a watchman wears magic goloshes and tries life as a lieutenant» 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/838-pg27200-part49/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:838-pg27200-part49:t11:1
# text = and the narrator says light is faster than a race horse, like how fast?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the narrator |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | light |  |  |  |  | than a race horse; fast *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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Like nine million times faster, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:838-pg27200-part49:t11:o1:1
# text = Like nine million times faster, bro
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like nineteen million times faster, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:838-pg27200-part49:t11:o2:1
# text = Like nineteen million times faster, bro
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like nineteen million times faster, bro, which is wild if you think about it for real

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:838-pg27200-part49:t11:o3:1
# text = Like nineteen million times faster, bro, which is wild if you think about it for real
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bro |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | about bro; for real | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a hundred times faster than a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:838-pg27200-part49:t11:o4:1
# text = Like a hundred times faster than a horse
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

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