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title: What was the Giant's last request for the harp? — Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the Giant's last request for the harp? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

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What was the Giant's last request for the harp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Giant last request · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» 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/1537-pg540-part34/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t10:1
# text = What was the Giant's last request for the harp?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Giant last request for the harp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 merry tune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t10:o1:1
# text = A merry tune
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tune	tune	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 slow, sweet lullaby to send him off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t10:o2:1
# text = A slow, sweet lullaby to send him off
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send off** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A lullaby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t10:o3:1
# text = A lullaby
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lullaby	lullaby	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 dirge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t10:o4:1
# text = A dirge
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dirge	dirge	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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