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title: Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the top of the fir tree? Exam question 4 of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

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Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the top of the fir tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** ask, fetch · **To what, where:** prince, top

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2018-pg7885-part37/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:e4:1
# text = Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the top of the fir tree?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support |  |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the top of the fir tree |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from top=Source |

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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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a bird's nest from the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:e4:o1:1
# text = a bird's nest from the top
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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five magpie eggs from the nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:e4:o2:1
# text = five magpie eggs from the nest
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the golden apple from the orchard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:e4:o3:1
# text = the golden apple from the orchard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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five magpie eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:e4:o4:1
# text = five magpie eggs
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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