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title: Wait, what size dragon did Effie fear most, the scary one? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what size dragon did Effie fear most, the scary one? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 13 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

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Wait, what size dragon did Effie fear most, the scary one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, size dragon · **What happens:** wait, fear

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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/640-pg23661-part8/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t13:1
# text = Wait, what size dragon did Effie fear most, the scary one?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
4	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fear** | past · do-support | what size dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the one as big as your dining room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t13:o1:1
# text = the one as big as your dining room
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the tiny ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t13:o2:1
# text = the tiny ones
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the big one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t13:o3:1
# text = the big one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the one as big as a cottage roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t13:o4:1
# text = the one as big as a cottage roof
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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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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