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title: Esperanto: what would "malgranda hundo" mean? — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: Esperanto: what would "malgranda hundo" mean? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: real languages and codes

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Esperanto: what would "malgranda hundo" mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** malgranda hundo · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** Esperanto

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English 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/english/59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t3:1
# text = Esperanto: what would "malgranda hundo" mean?
1	Esperanto	esperanto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	malgranda	malgranda	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	hundo	hundo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | would | malgranda hundo | Esperanto |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Small dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t3:o1:1
# text = Small dog
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dog	dog	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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Big dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t3:o2:1
# text = Big dog
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bad dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t3:o3:1
# text = Bad dog
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dog	dog	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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Big dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:59-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes:t3:o4:1
# text = Big dogs
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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