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title: Mate, what did the Giant squeeze so water came dribbling out? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the Giant squeeze so water came dribbling out? Test 2 · ★ 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 the q
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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Mate, what did the Giant squeeze so water came dribbling out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, water · **What happens:** squeeze, come, dribble out · **To what, where:** Giant squeeze

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This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t2:1
# text = Mate, what did the Giant squeeze so water came dribbling out?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	dribbling	dribble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | past · do-support | Mate and the Giant squeeze |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | water | the Giant squeeze *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dribble out** | gerund | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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a wet sponge from the bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t2:o1:1
# text = a wet sponge from the bucket
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sponge	sponge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a pebble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t2:o2:1
# text = a pebble
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pebble	pebble	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 rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t2:o3:1
# text = a rock
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	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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ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t2:o4:1
# text = ice
1	ice	ice	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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