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title: test: Mate, what was the Welsh giant planning, honest? — English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Mate, what was the Welsh giant planning, honest? Test 11 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

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test: Mate, what was the Welsh giant planning, honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Welsh giant planning

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t11:1
# text = test: Mate, what was the Welsh giant planning, honest?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | test and Mate and the Welsh giant planning | the Welsh giant planning |  |  |  |  | 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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To drown Jack at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t11:o1:1
# text = To drown Jack at dawn
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drown	drown	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  |  | dawn |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To trap Jack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t11:o2:1
# text = To trap Jack
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trap	trap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To eat Jack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t11:o3:1
# text = To eat Jack
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient |

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

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To bash Jack in his sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t11:o4:1
# text = To bash Jack in his sleep
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bash	bash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bash** | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  | Jack's sleep |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent jack=Theme in sleep=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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