--- title: What did the giant's daughter employ to impede her pursuer? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the giant's daughter employ to impede her pursuer? Exam question 4 of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/e4/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr… What did the giant's daughter employ to impede her pursuer? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** do, impede, employ · **To what, where:** daughter employ, pursuer This is exam question 4 of lesson 1947 «English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king promises his son to a giant, and the boy escapes with the giant's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1947-pg7439-part6/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:e4:1 # text = What did the giant's daughter employ to impede her pursuer? 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 4 det _ _ 4 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 employ employ NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 impede impede VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 pursuer pursuer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the giant's daughter employ | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | | 2 | **impede** | to-infinitive | | giant's pursuer | | | | | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pursuer=Eventuality | | 3 | **employ** | | the giant | | | | | | nom employ «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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} her comb ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:e4:o1:1 # text = her comb 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} a bowl of hot water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:e4:o2:1 # text = a bowl of hot water 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the comb from her hair ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:e4:o3:1 # text = the comb from her hair 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a stone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:e4:o4:1 # text = a stone 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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