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title: Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 14 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

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Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** be, fall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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/1954-pg7439-part13/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t14:1
# text = Dead simple, what was Jack told to fell?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** *not said to happen* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t14:o1:1
# text = the hedge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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all the tall pines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t14:o2:1
# text = all the tall pines
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the oaks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t14:o3:1
# text = the oaks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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all the great trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1954-pg7439-part13:t14:o4:1
# text = all the great trees
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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