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title: fr, what was in the cauldron when the giant checked it? — Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30:… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what was in the cauldron when the giant checked it? Test 5 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

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fr, what was in the cauldron when the giant checked it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be, check · **To what, where:** cauldron, giant

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t5:1
# text = fr, what was in the cauldron when the giant checked it?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fr and the cauldron |  |  | the cauldron |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | past | fr and the cauldron | giant |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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bones and stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t5:o1:1
# text = bones and stones
1	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
shoe-soles and rags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t5:o2:1
# text = shoe-soles and rags
1	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a mess of shoe-soles, rags and bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t5:o3:1
# text = a mess of shoe-soles, rags and bones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mess** |  |  | shoe soles and rags and bones |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a pot of broth and shoe-soles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t5:o4:1
# text = a pot of broth and shoe-soles
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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