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title: Proper, what guards the castle gate? — Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper, what guards the castle gate? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

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Proper, what guards the castle gate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** guard · **To what, where:** castle gate

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t7:1
# text = Proper, what guards the castle gate?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	guards	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present |  | the castle gate |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |

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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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two lions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t7:o1:1
# text = two lions
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a dozen armed guards with swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t7:o2:1
# text = a dozen armed guards with swords
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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two fiery griffins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t7:o3:1
# text = two fiery griffins
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	griffins	griffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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two iron serpents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t7:o4:1
# text = two iron serpents
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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