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title: Which thing did Jack run down as quick as he could? — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which thing did Jack run down as quick as he could? Test 10 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 10 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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Which thing did Jack run down as quick as he could?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** run down

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t10:1
# text = Which thing did Jack run down as quick as he could?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	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	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | past · do-support | which thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t10:o1:1
# text = the tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	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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the Beanstalk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t10:o2:1
# text = the Beanstalk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Beanstalk	beanstalk	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 bush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t10:o3:1
# text = the bush
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bush	bush	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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the bean pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t10:o4:1
# text = the bean pole
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pole	pole	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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