--- title: And the giant's like, the house is bad? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the… · tree and pragmatics description: And the giant's like, the house is bad? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2017-pg7885-part36/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2017-pg7885-part36/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the… And the giant's like, the house is bad? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** house · **What happens:** be This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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/2017-pg7885-part36/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t12:1 # text = And the giant's like, the house is bad? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 like like INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the house | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | 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} Yeah, that's a really bad place to build a castle, so ridiculous ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t12:o1:1 # text = Yeah, that's a really bad place to build a castle, so ridiculous 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | that | a bad place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | | a castle | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product | | 3 | **be** | | that *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, cursed ground to build ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t12:o2:1 # text = Yeah, cursed ground to build 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curse** | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, bad place to build it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t12:o3:1 # text = Yeah, bad place to build it 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | to-infinitive | | place | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Yeah, bad place to build it, the giant says, and then he leaves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t12:o4:1 # text = Yeah, bad place to build it, the giant says, and then he leaves 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* | place | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the giant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** | present | he | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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