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title: What was the giant lugging on his back, like a load of grub? — Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the giant lugging on his back, like a load of grub? Test 4 · ★ 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 depend
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

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What was the giant lugging on his back, like a load of grub?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t4:1
# text = What was the giant lugging on his back, like a load of grub?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	lugging	lug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lug** | gerund |  |  |  | his back |  | like a load of grub | 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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Oxen, sheep and hogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t4:o1:1
# text = Oxen, sheep and hogs
1	Oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bread and cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t4:o2:1
# text = Bread and cheese
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Oxen, sheep, hogs and a whole cart of grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t4:o3:1
# text = Oxen, sheep, hogs and a whole cart of grain
1	Oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Oxen, sheep and hogs, plus a sack of cabbages and fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t4:o4:1
# text = Oxen, sheep and hogs, plus a sack of cabbages and fruit
1	Oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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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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