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title: Who was rolling up on foaming steeds in autumn? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was rolling up on foaming steeds in autumn? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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 w
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

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Who was rolling up on foaming steeds in autumn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** roll up · **To what, where:** foaming steeds

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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/896-pg27200-part107/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t9:1
# text = Who was rolling up on foaming steeds in autumn?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | past · progressive |  |  |  | foaming steeds in autumn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on steed=Trajectory |

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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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The royal Arab prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t9:o1:1
# text = The royal Arab prince
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t9:o2:1
# text = The bride
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bridegroom's uncle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t9:o3:1
# text = The bridegroom's uncle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Viking chieftain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t9:o4:1
# text = The Viking chieftain
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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