--- title: Mate, whit did the giant want the prince's firstborn wee son for? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, whit did the giant want the prince's firstborn wee son for? Test 1 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/t1/) [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 Son of the Kin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2018-pg7885-part37/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par… Mate, whit did the giant want the prince's firstborn wee son for? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate whit, giant · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** firstborn wee son This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t1:1 # text = Mate, whit did the giant want the prince's firstborn wee son for? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 7 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 firstborn firstborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Mate whit | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | present | the giant | the prince's firstborn wee son | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | 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} the king's wee gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t1:o1:1 # text = the king's wee gold 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} tae eat the wee lad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t1:o2:1 # text = tae eat the wee lad 1 tae tae X FW Foreign=Yes 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | tae | the wee lad | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} a wee dog ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t1:o3:1 # text = a wee dog 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} his first son back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t1:o4:1 # text = his first son back 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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