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title: According to the giant's second statement, where was his soul located? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the giant's second statement, where was his soul located? Exam question 3 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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According to the giant's second statement, where was his soul located?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** soul, giant · **What happens:** accord, be, locate, state · **To what, where:** soul

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e3:1
# text = According to the giant's second statement, where was his soul located?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	located	locate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | giant's soul |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **locate** | participle | giant's soul |  |  |  |  | accord the giant's second statement | tree rules |
| 4 | **state** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | nom statement «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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upon the threshold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e3:o1:1
# text = upon the threshold
1	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	threshold	threshold	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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inside the iron box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e3:o2:1
# text = inside the iron box
1	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	box	box	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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outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e3:o3:1
# text = outside
1	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e3:o4:1
# text = the stone
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	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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