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title: ngl, how big were his cheeks after the dwarfs' curse? — Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: an… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how big were his cheeks after the dwarfs' curse? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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 w
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

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ngl, how big were his cheeks after the dwarfs' curse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl, dwarfs · **What happens:** be, curse · **To what, where:** cheeks

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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/1914-pg7277-part51/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t2:1
# text = ngl, how big were his cheeks after the dwarfs' curse?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ngl | ngl's cheeks |  |  | after the dwarfs's curse |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **curse** |  | the dwarfs |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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two big cheeks, like a squirrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t2:o1:1
# text = two big cheeks, like a squirrel
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two big ones, like a hamster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t2:o2:1
# text = two big ones, like a hamster
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two big ones, like a hamster storing nuts for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t2:o3:1
# text = two big ones, like a hamster storing nuts for winter
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	storing	store	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | gerund | a hamster *not said here* | nuts |  |  | winter |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two huge ones, like a hamster with a mouthful of seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t2:o4:1
# text = two huge ones, like a hamster with a mouthful of seeds
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

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