Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…
What was the giant lugging on his back, like a load of grub?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, lug · To what, where: back
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | 4 giant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 giant | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | lugging | lug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 giant | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lugging | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 load | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 load | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 load | det |
| 12 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lugging | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grub | case |
| 14 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 load | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 giant | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | giant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lug | gerund | his back | like a load of grub | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Oxen, sheep and hogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheep | punct |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hogs | cc |
| 5 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bread and cheese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cheese | cc |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Oxen, sheep, hogs and a whole cart of grain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheep | punct |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hogs | punct |
| 5 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cart | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cart | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cart | amod |
| 9 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grain | case |
| 11 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cart | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Oxen, sheep and hogs, plus a sack of cabbages and fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheep | punct |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hogs | cc |
| 5 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sack | punct |
| 7 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 9 sack | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sack | det |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oxen | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cabbages | case |
| 11 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sack | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fruit | cc |
| 13 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cabbages | conj |
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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