--- title: Wait, what's a troll in this one, a monster or the nasty online kind? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what's a troll in this one, a monster or the nasty online kind? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1444-pg503-part31/t12/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mast…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1444-pg503-part31/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th… Wait, what's a troll in this one, a monster or the nasty online kind? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** troll This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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/1444-pg503-part31/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t12:1 # text = Wait, what's a troll in this one, a monster or the nasty online kind? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **is a** | present | | a troll | | | | in this one or the nasty online kind | tree rules | 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} a giant monster in old tales ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t12:o1:1 # text = a giant monster in old tales 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a monster ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t12:o2:1 # text = a monster 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a troll online ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t12:o3:1 # text = a troll online 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 troll troll NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 online online ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a little elf in fairy stories ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1444-pg503-part31:t12:o4:1 # text = a little elf in fairy stories 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 elf elf NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` 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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