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description: yo, what did the giant say he'd do if the prince chatted with the Master-maid? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

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yo, what did the giant say he'd do if the prince chatted with the Master-maid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** giant, he · **What happens:** do, say, chat · **To what, where:** prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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/1443-pg503-part30/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t1:1
# text = yo, what did the giant say he'd do if the prince chatted with the Master-maid?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	chatted	chat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | would | he | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality |
| 4 | **chat** *speech: other* | participle |  | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  | with the Master maid | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maid=Co-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 {#o1}

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burn him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t1:o1:1
# text = burn him
1	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cut his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t1:o2:1
# text = cut his head
1	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | his head |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wring his neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t1:o3:1
# text = wring his neck
1	wring	wring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wring his neck and throw the body out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t1:o4:1
# text = wring his neck and throw the body out
1	wring	wring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw out** | infinitive |  | the body |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |

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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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