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title: test: Wot's the giant Cormoran's height, like, in feet? — English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Wot's the giant Cormoran's height, like, in feet? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

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test: Wot's the giant Cormoran's height, like, in feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** giant height

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t3:1
# text = test: Wot's the giant Cormoran's height, like, in feet?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Cormoran	Cormoran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wot | Cormoran's giant height and feet |  |  |  | test *obl:unmarked* | 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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Nineteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = Nineteen
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eighteen feet tall, roughly, I reckon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = Eighteen feet tall, roughly, I reckon
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Eighteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = Eighteen
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eighteen feet, like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = Eighteen feet, like
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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