--- title: How big was the spear the youth needed? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, p… · tree and pragmatics description: How big was the spear the youth needed? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1681-pg640-part5/t8/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1681-pg640-part5/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste… How big was the spear the youth needed? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** big spear This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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/1681-pg640-part5/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t8:1 # text = How big was the spear the youth needed? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the big spear | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | participle · passive | | the big spear | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | 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} Three fathoms, massive ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t8:o1:1 # text = Three fathoms, massive 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fathoms fathom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Ten feet, massive ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t8:o2:1 # text = Ten feet, massive 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Massive, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t8:o3:1 # text = Massive, mate 1 Massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Two fathoms, massive ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1681-pg640-part5:t8:o4:1 # text = Two fathoms, massive 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fathoms fathom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` 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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