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title: Mate, what blew the castle gates open? — Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what blew the castle gates open? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

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Mate, what blew the castle gates open?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** blow · **To what, where:** castle gates

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t8:1
# text = Mate, what blew the castle gates open?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|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	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | Mate | the castle gates |  |  |  | open *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent gate=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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a shrill blast from the golden trumpet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t8:o1:1
# text = a shrill blast from the golden trumpet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a shrill blast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t8:o2:1
# text = a shrill blast
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	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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the strong wind blast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t8:o3:1
# text = the strong wind blast
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	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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a sudden loud wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1501-pg503-part88:t8:o4:1
# text = a sudden loud wind
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	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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