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title: Scary stuff, what was in the forest? — Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Mira… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scary stuff, what was in the forest? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 11 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

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Scary stuff, what was in the forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Scary stuff · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** forest

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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/1464-pg503-part51/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t11:1
# text = Scary stuff, what was in the forest?
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Scary stuff |  |  | the forest |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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lions and wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t11:o1:1
# text = lions and wolves
1	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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robbers and bears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t11:o2:1
# text = robbers and bears
1	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ghosts and witches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t11:o3:1
# text = ghosts and witches
1	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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lions, wolves and angry shepherds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1464-pg503-part51:t11:o4:1
# text = lions, wolves and angry shepherds
1	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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