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title: how many eyes did the scary demon have? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many eyes did the scary demon have? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

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how many eyes did the scary demon have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many eyes · **What happens:** have

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» 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/1344-pg4018-part4/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t11:1
# text = how many eyes did the scary demon have?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | many eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
just one giant eye in the middle of its forehead and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t11:o1:1
# text = just one giant eye in the middle of its forehead and nothing else
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one giant eye in the middle, glowing red and blinking at her slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t11:o2:1
# text = one giant eye in the middle, glowing red and blinking at her slowly
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	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	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; slowly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
just one giant eye in the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t11:o3:1
# text = just one giant eye in the middle
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one small eye on the left side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t11:o4:1
# text = one small eye on the left side
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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