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title: so what's the boar like, is it massive? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what's the boar like, is it massive? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

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so what's the boar like, is it massive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boar · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** boar

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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/1710-pg640-part34/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t11:1
# text = so what's the boar like, is it massive?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the boar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the boar |  |  |  |  | massive *property* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it's big and furious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t11:o1:1
# text = yeah, it's big and furious
1	yeah	yeah	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it's huge and charging right at the Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t11:o2:1
# text = yeah, it's huge and charging right at the Prince
1	yeah	yeah	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **charge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the Prince; right *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yeah, it's huge and charging out of the thicket with tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t11:o3:1
# text = yeah, it's huge and charging out of the thicket with tusks
1	yeah	yeah	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **charge** | gerund |  |  |  | the thicket |  | with tusks | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out thicket=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it's huge and charging

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1710-pg640-part34:t11:o4:1
# text = yeah, it's huge and charging
1	yeah	yeah	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **charge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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