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title: Was the king's eye like, massive? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the king's eye like, massive? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Was the king's eye like, massive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** eye

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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/1071-pg2892-part39/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t9:1
# text = Was the king's eye like, massive?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the king's eye |  |  |  | like massive | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, big as a cup, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, big as a cup, proper
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, big as a plate, mental, bulging right out of his head like a boiled egg

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, big as a plate, mental, bulging right out of his head like a boiled egg
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bulging	bulge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bulge** | gerund |  | his head |  |  |  | like a boiled egg | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, big as a plate, mental

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, big as a plate, mental
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, his eye was tiny, like a pin, and he squinted all through the feast

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1071-pg2892-part39:t9:o4:1
# text = Nah, his eye was tiny, like a pin, and he squinted all through the feast
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	squinted	squint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | his eye |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **squint** | past | he |  |  |  |  | through the feast; all *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through feast=Theme |

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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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