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title: which giant got poked in the chin tho? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: which giant got poked in the chin tho? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

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which giant got poked in the chin tho?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** poke · **To what, where:** giant, chin tho

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t8:1
# text = which giant got poked in the chin tho?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	poked	poke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tho	tho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | past · passive |  | which giant |  | the chin tho |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: subject=Instrument |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the smallest giant sitting nearest the door of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t8:o1:1
# text = the smallest giant sitting nearest the door of the hall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
5	nearest	nearest	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the giant with the big beard who sits by the fire all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t8:o2:1
# text = the giant with the big beard who sits by the fire all night
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the giant big beard |  |  |  | night | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the second giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t8:o3:1
# text = the second giant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the first giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t8:o4:1
# text = the first giant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	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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