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title: the ettin hits the princess how? — English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: the ettin hits the princess how? Test 9 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin: the young man beats th…

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the ettin hits the princess how?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ettin · **What happens:** hit · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t9:1
# text = the ettin hits the princess how?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ettin	ettin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present | the ettin | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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with a rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t9:o1:1
# text = with a rod
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rod	rod	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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with an iron club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t9:o2:1
# text = with an iron club
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	club	club	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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with a heavy rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t9:o3:1
# text = with a heavy rope
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rope	rope	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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with a silver wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1963-pg7439-part22:t9:o4:1
# text = with a silver wand
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wand	wand	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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