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title: how big is this castle, like proper big? — Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64… · tree and pragmatics
description: how big is this castle, like proper big? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 10 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way…

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how big is this castle, like proper big?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big castle

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» 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/1339-pg3454-part64/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t10:1
# text = how big is this castle, like proper big?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this big castle |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the biggest one in the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t10:o1:1
# text = the biggest one in the world
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bigger than Camelot itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t10:o2:1
# text = bigger than Camelot itself
1	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Camelot	Camelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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huge indeed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t10:o3:1
# text = huge indeed
1	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the biggest in all the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1339-pg3454-part64:t10:o4:1
# text = the biggest in all the land
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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