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title: bruv what's the answer to "what's the thing without an end", I'm stuck — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv what's the answer to "what's the thing without an end", I'm stuck Test 4 · ★ 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 scho
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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bruv what's the answer to "what's the thing without an end", I'm stuck

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv, answer, I · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t4:1
# text = bruv what's the answer to "what's the thing without an end", I'm stuck
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | bruv | the answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the answer |  |  |  | without a end | to the thing | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | 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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air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t4:o1:1
# text = air
1	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t4:o2:1
# text = a spoon
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a pin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t4:o3:1
# text = a pin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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a bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t4:o4:1
# text = a bowl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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