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title: What did the three-headed giant bestow upon Tom? — Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the three-headed giant bestow upon Tom? Exam question 3 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 3 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

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What did the three-headed giant bestow upon Tom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** headed giant · **What happens:** bestow

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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/2021-pg7885-part40/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e3:1
# text = What did the three-headed giant bestow upon Tom?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | past · do-support | the headed giant |  |  |  |  | upon Tom | tree rules |

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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 pot of silver powder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e3:o1:1
# text = A pot of silver powder
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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A bottle of green ointment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e3:o2:1
# text = A bottle of green ointment
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A green jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e3:o3:1
# text = A green jar
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A flask of blue tonic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2021-pg7885-part40:e3:o4:1
# text = A flask of blue tonic
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tonic	tonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
```

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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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