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title: Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wan… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daught… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wanted the youngest? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the pri…

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Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wanted the youngest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dead funny whit wis, lad · **What happens:** hear, want · **To what, where:** youngest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1322 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Daughter, part 47: the prince and the giant's daughter escape on the blue-grey mare» 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/1322-pg3454-part47/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t11:1
# text = Dead funny, whit wis the giant's face like when he heard the lad wanted the youngest?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	whit	whit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wis	wi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Dead funny whit wis  the giant's face |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **want** | past | the lad | the youngest |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot young=Theme |

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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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it darkened like a thunderstorm coming ower the moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t11:o1:1
# text = it darkened like a thunderstorm coming ower the moor
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	ower	owe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **darken** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like a thunderstorm | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | a thunderstorm *not said here* | the moor |  |  |  | owe *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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it darkened

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t11:o2:1
# text = it darkened
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **darken** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t11:o3:1
# text = angry
1	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it fell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1322-pg3454-part47:t11:o4:1
# text = it fell
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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