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title: Who was the nasty giant who wanted revenge, like, proper bad? — Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was the nasty giant who wanted revenge, like, proper bad? Test 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 depen
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

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Who was the nasty giant who wanted revenge, like, proper bad?

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

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This is test 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t3:1
# text = Who was the nasty giant who wanted revenge, like, proper bad?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	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	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	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 nasty giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | the nasty giant | revenge |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Blunderbore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t3:o1:1
# text = Blunderbore
1	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The giant who lived in the wood and wanted revenge for his brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t3:o2:1
# text = The giant who lived in the wood and wanted revenge for his brother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the giant |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 2 | **want** | past | the giant *not said here* | revenge |  |  |  | for his brother | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The nasty giant Blunderbore, brother of the one Jack slew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t3:o3:1
# text = The nasty giant Blunderbore, brother of the one Jack slew
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	slew	slew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bloodmaw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t3:o4:1
# text = Bloodmaw
1	Bloodmaw	Bloodmaw	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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