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title: test: Yo, how many giants did Jack choke with rope? — English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Yo, how many giants did Jack choke with rope? Test 9 · ★ 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 the
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

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test: Yo, how many giants did Jack choke with rope?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test · **What happens:** choke

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t9:1
# text = test: Yo, how many giants did Jack choke with rope?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | past · do-support | test and many giants |  |  |  |  | with rope | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rope=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 {#o1}

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Two giants, both proper big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t9:o1:1
# text = Two giants, both proper big
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three giants, the lot of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t9:o2:1
# text = Three giants, the lot of them
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t9:o3:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t9:o4:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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