--- title: what were the giants trying to snatch from the castle? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an… · tree and pragmatics description: what were the giants trying to snatch from the castle? Test 9 · ★ 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 optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/709-pg2435-part49/t9/) [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/) / [Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/709-pg2435-part49/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni… what were the giants trying to snatch from the castle? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** giants · **What happens:** be, try, snatch · **To what, where:** giants, castle This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t9:1 # text = what were the giants trying to snatch from the castle? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 snatch snatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the giants | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | gerund | the giants *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **snatch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the giants *not said here* | | | the castle | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from castle=Source | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} the princess ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t9:o1:1 # text = the princess 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the silver cup ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t9:o2:1 # text = the silver cup 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the castle gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t9:o3:1 # text = the castle gold 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the princess and all the gold in the castle hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t9:o4:1 # text = the princess and all the gold in the castle hall 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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