--- title: Who was the monster that wanted to eat young girls, innit? — Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was the monster that wanted to eat young girls, innit? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1706-pg640-part30/t11/) [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 Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1706-pg640-part30/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c… Who was the monster that wanted to eat young girls, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** be, want, eat, innit · **To what, where:** monster, young girls This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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/1706-pg640-part30/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t11:1 # text = Who was the monster that wanted to eat young girls, innit? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the monster | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | past | the monster | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the monster *not said here* | young girls | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | | 4 | **innit** | infinitive | the monster *not said here* | | | | | | 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 {#o1} Bragorn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t11:o1:1 # text = Bragorn 1 Bragorn Bragorn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Locrinos ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t11:o2:1 # text = Locrinos 1 Locrinos Locrinos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} The cruel monster who lived beside the river ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t11:o3:1 # text = The cruel monster who lived beside the river 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 beside beside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the cruel monster | | | the river | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} Morgrim ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1706-pg640-part30:t11:o4:1 # text = Morgrim 1 Morgrim Morgrim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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