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title: what were the giants eating, for real? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: what were the giants eating, for real? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

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what were the giants eating, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** giants · **What happens:** eat

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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/709-pg2435-part49/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t7:1
# text = what were the giants eating, for real?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | the giants |  |  |  |  | for real | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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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bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t7:o1:1
# text = bread
1	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
broth and beef

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t7:o2:1
# text = broth and beef
1	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t7:o3:1
# text = ale
1	ale	ale	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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fish and bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t7:o4:1
# text = fish and bread
1	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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