Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Was Jack wide awake when he got nabbed, or did he nod off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: jack, nab, nod off · To what, where: he

This is test 5 · ★ 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	aux:pass
2	Jack	jack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nabbed	advcl
3	wide	wide	ADV	_	4 awake	advmod
4	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Jack	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 nabbed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nabbed	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nabbed	aux:pass
8	nabbed	nab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nod	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nod	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nod	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nod	nsubj
13	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nabbed	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 nod	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 nabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jack	past · passive			awake property	tree rules
2	nab	past · passive		he		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	nod off	past · do-support	he			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, he dozed off in a wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dozed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dozed	nsubj
4	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 dozed	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dozed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	he			a wood			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, he dozed off in a wood, weary from the long walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dozed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dozed	nsubj
4	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 dozed	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dozed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weary	punct
10	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 walk	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walk	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 walk	amod
14	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weary	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	he			a wood			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

No, he stayed up all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stayed	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	he				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he was snoring loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snoring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snoring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoring	aux
5	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 snoring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past · progressive	he					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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