Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack and the Magic Table: Jack takes three ma…
Jack was dead lazy in the stable, wasn't he?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: Jack
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lazy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lazy | aux |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lazy | amod |
| 4 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stable | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stable | det |
| 7 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lazy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stable | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 he | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 he | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lazy | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lazy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Jack | tree rules |
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
Nah, he cleaned the stable.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 cleaned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cleaned | nsubj |
| 4 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stable | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaned | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleaned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | past | he | the stable | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he did nothing all day and slept in the hay with the horses.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slept | cc |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hay | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hay | det |
| 12 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horses | det |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | nothing | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | he not said here | the hay | with the horses | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hay=Location |
Option 3
Yeah, he slept in the hay.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hay | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hay | det |
| 7 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | he | the hay | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hay=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he did nothing all day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | nothing | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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