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title: What job did the giant give Nix for the stable, a proper nightmare? — English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothin… · tree and pragmatics
description: What job did the giant give Nix for the stable, a proper nightmare? Test 9 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, part 1: a king pr…

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What job did the giant give Nix for the stable, a proper nightmare?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** job · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Nix

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t9:1
# text = What job did the giant give Nix for the stable, a proper nightmare?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Nix	Nix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | what job |  | Nix |  |  | for the stable and a proper nightmare | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nix=Theme for stable=Asset |

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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 {#o1}

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scrub and clean every bit of it by tomorrow night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t9:o1:1
# text = scrub and clean every bit of it by tomorrow night
1	scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | every bit of bit |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |

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

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clean it by tomorrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t9:o2:1
# text = clean it by tomorrow
1	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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muck it out by noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t9:o3:1
# text = muck it out by noon
1	muck	muck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **muck out** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | noon |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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clean it all by tomorrow morning, no excuses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1947-pg7439-part6:t9:o4:1
# text = clean it all by tomorrow morning, no excuses
1	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | morning | no excuses *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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