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title: Ngl, whose bed was too high at the head? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Cast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, whose bed was too high at the head? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

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Ngl, whose bed was too high at the head?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** head

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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/1956-pg7439-part15/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t11:1
# text = Ngl, whose bed was too high at the head?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ngl |  |  | the head |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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 Middle Bear's bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t11:o1:1
# text = the Middle Bear's bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the Great, Huge Bear's bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t11:o2:1
# text = the Great, Huge Bear's bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 Father's bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t11:o3:1
# text = the Father's bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Big Bear's bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t11:o4:1
# text = the Big Bear's bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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