--- title: wait, which creature did the giant call to suck up the water? — Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30:… · tree and pragmatics description: wait, which creature did the giant call to suck up the water? Test 6 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1443-pg503-part30/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1443-pg503-part30/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches… wait, which creature did the giant call to suck up the water? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, creature · **What happens:** wait, do, suck up · **To what, where:** giant call, water This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t6:1 # text = wait, which creature did the giant call to suck up the water? 1 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det _ _ 4 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | which creature | the giant call | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | | 3 | **suck up** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | 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} the sea-swallower ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t6:o1:1 # text = the sea-swallower 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 swallower swallower NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the cloud-drinker ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t6:o2:1 # text = the cloud-drinker 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 drinker drinker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the river-sucker ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t6:o3:1 # text = the river-sucker 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the great sucker from the northern river ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:t6:o4:1 # text = the great sucker from the northern river 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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