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title: Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 5 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

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Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nose · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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/1790-pg641-part41/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t5:1
# text = Yo, was his nose massive, like dead long?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | his nose |  |  |  |  | massive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | his nose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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as long as a whole arm and then some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t5:o1:1
# text = as long as a whole arm and then some
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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quite two hands long and well hooked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t5:o2:1
# text = quite two hands long and well hooked
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
quite two hands long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t5:o3:1
# text = quite two hands long
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
quite three hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:t5:o4:1
# text = quite three hands
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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