---
title: What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New C… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1683 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1683-pg640-part7/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New C…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1683-pg640-part7/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big fear

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1683 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing» 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/1683-pg640-part7/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1683-pg640-part7:t8:1
# text = What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Emperor's big fear and the worst thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being seen as dim by everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1683-pg640-part7:t8:o1:1
# text = Being seen as dim by everyone
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund · passive | everyone |  |  |  |  | as dim | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as dim=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1683-pg640-part7:t8:o2:1
# text = Being poor
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Losing his gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1683-pg640-part7:t8:o3:1
# text = Losing his gold
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  | his gold |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Looking dumb and not fit to rule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1683-pg640-part7:t8:o4:1
# text = Looking dumb and not fit to rule
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **fit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New C…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1683-pg640-part7/t7/)
- next →: [Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New C…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1683-pg640-part7/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1683-pg640-part7/)