Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

Oi, what did the giant's own hand do at the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: own hand, end

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hand	amod
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the giant's own hand					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality
2	do	present					at the end		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

it grabbed the knife and turned it on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knife	det
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turned	cc
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	it	the knife					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	turn	past		knife				on him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

stabbed him in the gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stabbed	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 gut	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gut	det
5	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		him = he		the gut			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in gut=Location

Option 3

his own hand stabbed him in the stomach and gut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stabbed	nsubj
4	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stabbed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stomach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stomach	det
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stabbed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gut	cc
10	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stomach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	his own hand	him = he		the stomach and gut			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in stomach=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it stabbed his own leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leg	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leg	amod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obj

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

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