Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:…

Where did Jack find the rope, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: find · To what, where: rope

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 find	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 find	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Jack	the rope			then		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Topic

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

Hidden in a chest under a pile of old bones in the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 chest	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chest	det
4	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 pile	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pile	det
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bones	case
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bones	amod
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pile	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				a chest		under a pile of old bones; in the room	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chest=Location

Option 2

Hanging on the far wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
4	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund				the far wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

Option 3

In a corner of the room, hanging from a hook by the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hanging	punct
8	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 corner	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 hook	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hook	det
11	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hanging	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund				a hook		by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In a corner of the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	nmod

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

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