Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…

Did the brothers get the table off Jack straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: get · To what, where: table

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1167 «Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three magic gifts, tricks his way to the top, and wins the king's daughter» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	8 Jack	case
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 table	nmod
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the brothers	the table				off Jack; away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the tale leaked out later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tale	det
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	leaked	leak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tale	acl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 leaked	compound:prt
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 leaked	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tale	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak out	participle		the tale not said here				late property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 2

Yeah, they took it straight away and the tale never leaked out at all.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leaked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaked	nsubj:pass
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 leaked	advmod
12	leaked	leak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 leaked	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 leaked	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	it				away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not leak out	participle · passive		the tale		all			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3

Nah, they kept it for years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, right at the start.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 start	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 start	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 start	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 start	punct

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

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