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title: No cap, what was the giant holding on his shoulder? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what was the giant holding on his shoulder? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

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No cap, what was the giant holding on his shoulder?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** shoulder

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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/2047-pg976-part6/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t3:1
# text = No cap, what was the giant holding on his shoulder?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no cap |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | no cap *not said here* |  |  | his shoulder |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location |

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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 heavy brass club studded with nails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t3:o1:1
# text = a heavy brass club studded with nails
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	studded	stud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stud** | participle |  | a heavy brass club *not said here* |  |  |  | with nails | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a long iron-tipped spear from the armoury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t3:o2:1
# text = a long iron-tipped spear from the armoury
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	armoury	armoury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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a brass club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t3:o3:1
# text = a brass club
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	club	club	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 heavy stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2047-pg976-part6:t3:o4:1
# text = a heavy stone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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