Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Why couldn't Jack get any kip at the Welsh house, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: not get · To what, where: kip, Welsh house

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kip	det
7	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 then	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 get	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	Jack	any kip		the Welsh house	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kip=Theme at house=Asset

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

He could not sleep though weary, because the bed was hard and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	though	though	ADV	_	6 weary	advmod
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 hard	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hard	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hard	cop
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cold	cc
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not sleep	could	He	weary property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the bed	hard property	tree rules
3	be		the bed not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He could not sleep though weary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	though	though	ADV	_	4 sleep	advmod
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	could	He					though, weary property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The bed was far too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bed	det
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hard	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bed					far, hard property	tree rules

Option 4

He was too worried about the giant to sleep, though he was very weary

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 worried	advmod
4	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 giant	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worried	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 giant	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weary	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 weary	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 weary	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 weary	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 weary	advmod
15	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	He	worried property	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he	weary property	tree rules

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