Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…
Wicked, what did the giant say was gonna happen to Jack's brains?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happen | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 say | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 say | amod |
| 7 | say | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 9 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 happen | dep |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wicked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 brains | case |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brains | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Jack | case |
| 14 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 happen | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · do-support | to Jack's brains | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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
pulled out and thrown on the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 pulled | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thrown | cc |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 pulled | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | participle | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | throw | participle | the floor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
Option 2
smashed on rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 rocks | case |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 smashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | participle | rocks | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination |
Option 3
dashed out completely from his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 dashed | compound:prt |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 1 dashed | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash out | participle | his head | completely property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from head=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
dashed out quite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 dashed | compound:prt |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 1 dashed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash out | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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