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title: Innit, which tree did the Giant bend down for him to nick cherries f… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, which tree did the Giant bend down for him to nick cherries from? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmati
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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Innit, which tree did the Giant bend down for him to nick cherries from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit, tree · **What happens:** do, bend down, nick · **To what, where:** Giant, cherries

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t4:1
# text = Innit, which tree did the Giant bend down for him to nick cherries from?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Innit | the Giant |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bend down** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nick** | to-infinitive | tree | cherries |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherry=Patient |

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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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a cherry tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = a cherry tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	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 pear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = a pear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pear	pear	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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an ash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = an ash
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ash	ash	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 plum tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = a plum tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	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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