--- title: Ascertain the designation conferred upon Wild Horse following his ac… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the designation conferred upon Wild Horse following his acceptance of the halter. Exam question 2 of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t… Ascertain the designation conferred upon Wild Horse following his acceptance of the halter. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Wild Horse, Horse · **What happens:** ascertain, confer, follow, accept · **To what, where:** designation, acceptance, halter This is exam question 2 of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the designation conferred upon Wild Horse following his acceptance of the halter. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 designation designation NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 conferred confer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 upon upon ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:agent _ _ 8 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 acceptance acceptance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the designation | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent designation=Topic | | 2 | **confer** | participle | | the designation *not said here* | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | Wild Horse *not said here* | Horse's acceptance of the halter | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acceptance=Theme | | 4 | **accept** | | Horse | the halter | | | | | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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} The First Servant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:e2:o1:1 # text = The First Servant 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The First Servant who wears the halter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:e2:o2:1 # text = The First Servant who wears the halter 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 halter halter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | the First Servant | the halter | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent halter=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} The First Rider ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:e2:o3:1 # text = The First Rider 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Rider Rider PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Wild Runner ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:e2:o4:1 # text = The Wild Runner 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Runner Runner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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