---
title: so the king gives the crab a proper hard task, what was it — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the king gives the crab a proper hard task, what was it Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/t3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/) / t3

# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so the king gives the crab a proper hard task, what was it

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** proper hard task, crab, task

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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/1684-pg640-part8/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t3:1
# text = so the king gives the crab a proper hard task, what was it
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	parataxis	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the king | a proper hard task | the crab |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent crab=Recipient task=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t3:o1:1
# text = a gate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wall higher than the tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t3:o2:1
# text = wall higher than the tower
1	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tower lower than the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t3:o3:1
# text = tower lower than the wall
1	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a moat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t3:o4:1
# text = a moat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/t2/)
- next →: [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/t4/)
- ↑ back to [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/)