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title: Which giant was the one who said let him live? — Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which giant was the one who said let him live? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

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Which giant was the one who said let him live?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** giant, one · **What happens:** be, say, let, live · **To what, where:** one, giant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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/780-pg2591-part56/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t12:1
# text = Which giant was the one who said let him live?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which giant | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the third giant said it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t12:o1:1
# text = the third giant said it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the third giant | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t12:o2:1
# text = the cloud
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the eldest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t12:o3:1
# text = the eldest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the second giant said so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:780-pg2591-part56:t12:o4:1
# text = the second giant said so
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the second giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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