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title: With what implement did the Giant strike the bed at midnight? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: With what implement did the Giant strike the bed at midnight? Exam question 1 of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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With what implement did the Giant strike the bed at midnight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Giant strike

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/109-pg11027-part12/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e1:1
# text = With what implement did the Giant strike the bed at midnight?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Giant strike |  |  | midnight | with what implement; the bed *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality |

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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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an iron bar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e1:o1:1
# text = an iron bar
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bar	bar	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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a club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e1:o2:1
# text = a club
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	club	club	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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a wooden pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e1:o3:1
# text = a wooden pole
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pole	pole	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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a steel knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e1:o4:1
# text = a steel knife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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