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title: Wait, what was the goblin's big knife doing? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Ad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the goblin's big knife doing? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted 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 was w
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

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Wait, what was the goblin's big knife doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, big knife · **What happens:** wait, do

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted 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/1364-pg4018-part24/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t11:1
# text = Wait, what was the goblin's big knife doing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive | the goblin's big knife |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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blood-stained and scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t11:o1:1
# text = blood-stained and scary
1	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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covered in fresh blood and very frightening to see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t11:o2:1
# text = covered in fresh blood and very frightening to see
1	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in fresh blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in blood=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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bloody and shining

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t11:o3:1
# text = bloody and shining
1	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dirty and very long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1364-pg4018-part24:t11:o4:1
# text = dirty and very long
1	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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