Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

How did Jack actually kill the two giants, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: kill · To what, where: two giants

This is test 7 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kill	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Jack	aux
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kill	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 kill	advmod
5	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giants	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 giants	nummod
8	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giants	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Jack	the two giants				actually property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He choked them with a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 choked	nsubj
2	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 choked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past	He	them = they				with a rope	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with rope=Theme

Option 2

He stabbed them with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 knife	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	them = they				with a knife	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 3

He stabbed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	them = they					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

He choked them with a rope he found in a corner, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 choked	nsubj
2	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 choked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 choked	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 choked	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past	He	them = they				with a rope	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with rope=Theme
2	find	past	he			a corner and mate			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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