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title: Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what? — The Magic City, The North Pole, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 2 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

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Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dragon

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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/645-pg23661-part13/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t2:1
# text = Was the dragon proper terrifying, or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	csubj	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the dragon |  |  |  |  | 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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Quite scary but nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t2:o1:1
# text = Quite scary but nice
1	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Terrible but beautiful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t2:o2:1
# text = Terrible but beautiful
1	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Well, he was really big and scary but also quite lovely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t2:o3:1
# text = Well, he was really big and scary but also quite lovely
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, it was terrifying but also really gorgeous to see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:645-pg23661-part13:t2:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it was terrifying but also really gorgeous to see
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | terrifying *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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