Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Was Jack a city boy from London, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Jack

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Jack	cop
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jack	appos
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 London	case
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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

Yeah, from London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 London	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 London	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

No, he was from Cornwall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Cornwall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cornwall	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Cornwall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Cornwall	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Cornwall	case
6	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			Cornwall			tree rules

Option 3

No, he was from Kent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 Kent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Kent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Kent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Kent	cop
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Kent	case
6	Kent	Kent	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			Kent			tree rules

Option 4

Yes, born in London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 born	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle				London			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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