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title: Who was snoring louder than thunder, proper loud? — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who was snoring louder than thunder, proper loud? Test 8 · ★ 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 ques
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# Test 8 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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Who was snoring louder than thunder, proper loud?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** snore

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t8:1
# text = Who was snoring louder than thunder, proper loud?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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 {#o1}

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the big hungry Giant upstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = the big hungry Giant upstairs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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the Ogre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = the Ogre
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	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 Giantess snoring away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = the Giantess snoring away
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore away** | gerund | the Giantess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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the Giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = the Giant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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