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title: exam: What quantity of hasty pudding was contained in the bowl prese… — English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: exam: What quantity of hasty pudding was contained in the bowl presented to Jack at breakfast? Exam question 4 of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» of the books course of Mova's primary school
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# Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

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exam: What quantity of hasty pudding was contained in the bowl presented to Jack at breakfast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** contain, present · **To what, where:** exam, bowl, Jack, breakfast

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1957-pg7439-part16/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:e4:1
# text = exam: What quantity of hasty pudding was contained in the bowl presented to Jack at breakfast?
1	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past · passive |  | exam |  | the bowl |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in bowl=Location |
| 2 | **present** | participle |  | the bowl *not said here* | Jack | breakfast |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jack=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Four gallons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:e4:o1:1
# text = Four gallons
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four quarts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:e4:o2:1
# text = Four quarts
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	quarts	quart	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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Three gallons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:e4:o3:1
# text = Three gallons
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four gallons of hot hasty pudding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:e4:o4:1
# text = Four gallons of hot hasty pudding
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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