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title: What was the principal outcome of the tailor's tree-carrying exploit? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal outcome of the tailor's tree-carrying exploit? Exam question 3 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…

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What was the principal outcome of the tailor's tree-carrying exploit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** principal outcome

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» 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/1484-pg503-part71/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e3:1
# text = What was the principal outcome of the tailor's tree-carrying exploit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	exploit	exploit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal outcome |  |  |  | of the tailor's tree carrying exploit | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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The giant was deceived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e3:o1:1
# text = The giant was deceived
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | past · passive |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tailor escaped the giant's rage entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e3:o2:1
# text = The tailor escaped the giant's rage entirely
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | past | the tailor | the giant's rage |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rage=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rage** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The tailor was caught

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e3:o3:1
# text = The tailor was caught
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · passive |  | the tailor |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The giant was tricked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:e3:o4:1
# text = The giant was tricked
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past · passive |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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