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title: the riddle about the dead carrying the living, what's the answer, ma… — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: the riddle about the dead carrying the living, what's the answer, mate? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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the riddle about the dead carrying the living, what's the answer, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dead, riddle · **What happens:** carry, be · **To what, where:** living, answer

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1963 «English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats the three-headed Ettin with riddles and a magic wand, and frees the king's daughter and the prisoners.» 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/1963-pg7439-part22/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t11:1
# text = the riddle about the dead carrying the living, what's the answer, mate?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | the dead | the living |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the riddle and the answer | the answer |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a ship with men inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t11:o1:1
# text = a ship with men inside
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a coffin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t11:o2:1
# text = a coffin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t11:o3:1
# text = a boat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tree with birds inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t11:o4:1
# text = a tree with birds inside
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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