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title: Ok so the giant wanted the kid cooked, like for real, right? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok so the giant wanted the kid cooked, like for real, right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

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Ok so the giant wanted the kid cooked, like for real, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** giant, kid · **What happens:** want, cook

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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/1991-pg7885-part10/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1991-pg7885-part10:t1:1
# text = Ok so the giant wanted the kid cooked, like for real, right?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **cook** | past | the kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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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Nah, the giant just wanted the kid to play with

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1991-pg7885-part10:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, the giant just wanted the kid to play with
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the giant | the kid |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* | the kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1991-pg7885-part10:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, just a joke
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yeah, the lady was gonna chop him up for the giant's dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1991-pg7885-part10:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the lady was gonna chop him up for the giant's dinner
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  | for the giant's dinner; chop *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she wanted to cook him for the giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1991-pg7885-part10:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah, she wanted to cook him for the giant
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | for the giant | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Product for giant=Beneficiary |

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