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title: Whose little trunk was spinning the top, then? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whose little trunk was spinning the top, then? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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Whose little trunk was spinning the top, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little trunk · **What happens:** spin · **To what, where:** top

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t11:1
# text = Whose little trunk was spinning the top, then?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past · progressive | little trunk | the top |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent top=Theme |

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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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the dragon's enormous purple claw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t11:o1:1
# text = the dragon's enormous purple claw
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the magician's sneaky little hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t11:o2:1
# text = the magician's sneaky little hand
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the elephant's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t11:o3:1
# text = the elephant's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the Princess's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t11:o4:1
# text = the Princess's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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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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