Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

Mate, who got the giant's nose sliced off, like, by accident?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: get, slice off · To what, where: nose

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	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	8 nose	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
9	sliced	slice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nose	acl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 sliced	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accident	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 accident	case
15	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Mate	the giant's nose				by accident	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus
2	slice off	participle		the giant's nose not said here					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

the giant who lay on the wooden block of timber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 block	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 block	det
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 block	amod
8	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 timber	case
10	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 block	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the giant			the wooden block of timber			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on block=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the giant on the block

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 block	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 block	det
5	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giant	nmod

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

Option 3

the giant standing beside the stone well at the castle gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 standing	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 standing	amod
3	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	nmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 gate	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	compound
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	nmod

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

Option 4

the giant at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 table	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giant	obl

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

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