--- title: The bald king's mountain thing is wild, is it like forever? — Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rat… · tree and pragmatics description: The bald king's mountain thing is wild, is it like forever? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» of the books c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/690-pg2435-part30/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/690-pg2435-part30/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin… The bald king's mountain thing is wild, is it like forever? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mountain thing · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** it This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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/690-pg2435-part30/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t12:1 # text = The bald king's mountain thing is wild, is it like forever? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 forever forever ADV RB _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the bald king's mountain thing | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | it | | | | | tree rules | 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} Six hundred more years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t12:o1:1 # text = Six hundred more years 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, just a few weeks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t12:o2:1 # text = Nah, just a few weeks 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Just one more day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t12:o3:1 # text = Just one more day 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Eight hundred more years ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t12:o4:1 # text = Eight hundred more years 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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