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title: Which object did Jack sound at the gate of the castle in order to re… — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did Jack sound at the gate of the castle in order to request admittance? Exam question 1 of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Exam question 1 · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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Which object did Jack sound at the gate of the castle in order to request admittance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** sound, request · **To what, where:** gate, admittance

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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/1536-pg540-part33/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:e1:1
# text = Which object did Jack sound at the gate of the castle in order to request admittance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
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	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
16	admittance	admittance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past · do-support | which object |  |  | the gate of the castle |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location |
| 2 | **request** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | admittance |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent admittance=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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a bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:e1:o1:1
# text = a bell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	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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a drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:e1:o2:1
# text = a drum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	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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a flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:e1:o3:1
# text = a flute
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:e1:o4:1
# text = the horn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horn	horn	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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