Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Who was the nasty giant who wanted revenge, like, proper bad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nasty giant · What happens: be, want · To what, where: nasty giant, revenge

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 giant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giant	acl:relcl
8	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bad	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	13 bad	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bad	amod
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wanted	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 giant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nasty giant					tree rules
2	want	past	the nasty giant	revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=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 · ✓ the right answer

Blunderbore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The giant who lived in the wood and wanted revenge for his brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
10	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 brother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the giant			the wood			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
2	want	past	the giant not said here	revenge				for his brother	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 3

The nasty giant Blunderbore, brother of the one Jack slew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Blunderbore	det
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Blunderbore	amod
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Blunderbore	amod
4	Blunderbore	Blunderbore	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Blunderbore	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 slew	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slew	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slew	compound
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 slew	compound
11	slew	slew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brother	nmod

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

Option 4

Bloodmaw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bloodmaw	Bloodmaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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