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title: To whom did Jack present his account of the battles upon returning t… — Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom did Jack present his account of the battles upon returning to the court? Exam question 3 of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

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To whom did Jack present his account of the battles upon returning to the court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** present, return, account · **To what, where:** account, battles

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» 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/1501-pg503-part88/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:e3:1
# text = To whom did Jack present his account of the battles upon returning to the court?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past · do-support | Jack | Jack's account of the battles |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to whom=Recipient |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | Jack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the court *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result |
| 3 | **account** |  | Jack | the battles |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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to the queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:e3:o1:1
# text = to the queen
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to the King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:e3:o2:1
# text = to the King
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to Arthur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:e3:o3:1
# text = to Arthur
1	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	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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the King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:e3:o4:1
# text = the King
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	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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