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title: fr that dog with three heads is actually terrifying — Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr that dog with three heads is actually terrifying Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 5 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes…

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fr that dog with three heads is actually terrifying

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2073 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 32: Ceres becomes the prince's nurse and secretly watches him by firelight» 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/2073-pg976-part32/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t5:1
# text = fr that dog with three heads is actually terrifying
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | fr with three heads and that dog |  |  |  |  | actually, terrifying *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}

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Cerberus watches Pluto's front door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t5:o1:1
# text = Cerberus watches Pluto's front door
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | Cerberus | Pluto's front door |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Cerberus guards the gates of Pluto's kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t5:o2:1
# text = Cerberus guards the gates of Pluto's kingdom
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | Cerberus | the gates of Pluto's kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hydra guards the gates of Pluto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t5:o3:1
# text = Hydra guards the gates of Pluto
1	Hydra	Hydra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | Hydra | the gates of Pluto |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cerberus guards the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2073-pg976-part32:t5:o4:1
# text = Cerberus guards the gate
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | Cerberus | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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