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title: Upon what grounds did Blunderbore pursue Jack? — Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what grounds did Blunderbore pursue Jack? Exam question 3 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, with the dependency tree
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

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Upon what grounds did Blunderbore pursue Jack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grounds · **What happens:** pursue · **To what, where:** Jack

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e3:1
# text = Upon what grounds did Blunderbore pursue Jack?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past · do-support | grounds | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jack=Theme upon what=Trajectory |

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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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Vengeance for Cormoran's death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e3:o1:1
# text = Vengeance for Cormoran's death
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | Cormoran |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Vengeance for Cormoran's death and the loss of his cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e3:o2:1
# text = Vengeance for Cormoran's death and the loss of his cave
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | Cormoran |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Anger at his brother's wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e3:o3:1
# text = Anger at his brother's wife
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Vengeance for the death of his brother Cormoran, the giant of Cornwall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:e3:o4:1
# text = Vengeance for the death of his brother Cormoran, the giant of Cornwall
1	Vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** |  | his brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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