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title: To what county does the narrative of Jack the Giant-Killer principal… — Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what county does the narrative of Jack the Giant-Killer principally refer? Exam question 1 of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

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To what county does the narrative of Jack the Giant-Killer principally refer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** county, narrative · **What happens:** do, refer · **To what, where:** narrative

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» 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/1500-pg503-part87/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e1:1
# text = To what county does the narrative of Jack the Giant-Killer principally refer?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	county	county	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Killer	Killer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | county | the narrative of Jack |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Eventuality |
| 2 | **refer** | infinitive | the narrative of Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | principally *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=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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Kent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e1:o1:1
# text = Kent
1	Kent	kent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yorkshire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e1:o2:1
# text = Yorkshire
1	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cornwall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e1:o3:1
# text = Cornwall
1	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e1:o4:1
# text = Wales
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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