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title: What did the Giant reckon he could smell? — Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Giant reckon he could smell? Test 14 · ★ 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 was wron
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

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What did the Giant reckon he could smell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** do, smell · **To what, where:** Giant reckon

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t14:1
# text = What did the Giant reckon he could smell?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Giant reckon |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **smell** | could | he | the Giant reckon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reckon=Stimulus |

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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 stranger here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t14:o1:1
# text = A stranger here
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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An Englishman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t14:o2:1
# text = An Englishman
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Englishman	Englishman	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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An Englishman hiding in the cellar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t14:o3:1
# text = An Englishman hiding in the cellar
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A wicked Englishman from London

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t14:o4:1
# text = A wicked Englishman from London
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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