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title: Ngl, the Wind's cave was massive, wasn't it? — tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, the Wind's cave was massive, wasn't it? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 13 · ★ · tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Prince…

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Ngl, the Wind's cave was massive, wasn't it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cave, Ngl · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** Ngl, cave

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» 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/1530-pg540-part27/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1530-pg540-part27:t13:1
# text = Ngl, the Wind's cave was massive, wasn't it?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Wind's cave | Ngl *not said here* |  |  |  | massive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | Ngl | cave |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yeah, a huge hole in a hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1530-pg540-part27:t13:o1:1
# text = Yeah, a huge hole in a hill
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a massive cave by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1530-pg540-part27:t13:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a massive cave by the sea
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1530-pg540-part27:t13:o3:1
# text = Nah, it was small
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, an enormous cave in a mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1530-pg540-part27:t13:o4:1
# text = Yeah, an enormous cave in a mountain
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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