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title: Wicked, what were the Giants munching by the fire? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what were the Giants munching by the fire? Test 7 · ★ 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 question and
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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Wicked, what were the Giants munching by the fire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wicked Giants · **What happens:** be, munch · **To what, where:** Wicked Giants

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t7:1
# text = Wicked, what were the Giants munching by the fire?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	munching	munch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Wicked Giants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **munch** | gerund | the Wicked Giants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn chew-39.2 «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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boiled fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t7:o1:1
# text = boiled fish
1	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a whole roast ox with gravy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t7:o2:1
# text = a whole roast ox with gravy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gravy	gravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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roast sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t7:o3:1
# text = roast sheep
1	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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roast sheep and bread stew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t7:o4:1
# text = roast sheep and bread stew
1	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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