--- title: Which boys did the giant bash on the stone, like, dead? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics description: Which boys did the giant bash on the stone, like, dead? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1947-pg7439-part6/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr… Which boys did the giant bash on the stone, like, dead? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** giant bash, stone This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t7:1 # text = Which boys did the giant bash on the stone, like, dead? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bash bash NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 like like INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which boys | the giant bash | | the stone | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bash=Eventuality | 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} the gardener's boy and Nix ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t7:o1:1 # text = the gardener's boy and Nix 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Nix Nix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the gardener's boy and the cook ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t7:o2:1 # text = the gardener's boy and the cook 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the hen-wife's boy and the gardener's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t7:o3:1 # text = the hen-wife's boy and the gardener's 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the cook's boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t7:o4:1 # text = the cook's boy 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 boy boy 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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