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title: What dead gross bone was the Giant chewing on? — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: What dead gross bone was the Giant chewing on? Test 5 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 5 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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What dead gross bone was the Giant chewing on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, chew on

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t5:1
# text = What dead gross bone was the Giant chewing on?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chew on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t5:o1:1
# text = a bone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 horse hoof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t5:o2:1
# text = a horse hoof
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hoof	hoof	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 pig's bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t5:o3:1
# text = a pig's bone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bone	bone	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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a wolf's bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t5:o4:1
# text = a wolf's bone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bone	bone	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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