--- title: What did the giant want for carrying the king, the dead cheek? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the giant want for carrying the king, the dead cheek? Test 5 · ★ 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 pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr… What did the giant want for carrying the king, the dead cheek? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** do, want, carry · **To what, where:** king This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t5:1 # text = What did the giant want for carrying the king, the dead cheek? 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 ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 5 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | present | the giant | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **carry** *not said to happen* | gerund | the giant *not said here* | the king and the dead cheek | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Nix Nought Nothing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t5:o1:1 # text = Nix Nought Nothing 1 Nix Nix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 3 compound _ _ 3 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the king's own crown ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t5:o2:1 # text = the king's own crown 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crown** | | the king | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} a gold ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t5:o3:1 # text = a gold ring 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} the king's dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t5:o4:1 # text = the king's dog 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 dog dog 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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