Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Did Jack just stand there gawping at the giant, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: stand, gawp

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stand	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stand	advmod
6	gawping	gawp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stand	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gawping	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gawping	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · do-support	Jack			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gawp	gerund	Jack not said here					at the giant	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, he just stared at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stared	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stared	advmod
5	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	he					at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, he fought with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he					with a stick	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stick=Co-Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he gawped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gawped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gawped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gawped	nsubj
4	gawped	gawp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, he dug a pit and blew his horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pit	det
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horn	nmod:poss
10	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	he	a pit					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme
2	blow	past	he not said here	his horn					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

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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