Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

What did the Welsh giant give Jack, like a proper welcome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Welsh giant · What happens: do, give · To what, where: Jack

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
4	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 welcome	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 welcome	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 welcome	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 welcome	amod
12	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	give	present	the Welsh giant		Jack			like a proper welcome	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme

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

A warm meal and a sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meal	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meal	amod
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sofa	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sofa	det
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meal	conj

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

Option 2

A hot supper and a soft bed to sleep in after his long journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 supper	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 supper	amod
3	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleep	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bed	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 supper	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 sleep	advmod
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 journey	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 journey	amod
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in	to-infinitive	a hot supper and a soft bed				after his long journey		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	journey		his = he						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A good bed to sleep in, with a warm meal and a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bed	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bed	amod
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 sleep	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meal	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 meal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 meal	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fire	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in	to-infinitive	a good bed					with a warm meal and a fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A good bed to sleep in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bed	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bed	amod
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bed	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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