Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…
Did the old lady warn Jack it's dangerous?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady, it · What happens: warn, be · To what, where: Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warn | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warn | nsubj |
| 5 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warn | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dangerous | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warn | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 warn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past · do-support | the old lady | Jack | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | dangerous property | tree rules |
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
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yep, bit risky, she said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bit | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | she not said here | risky property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yep, she did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yep, full of peril, she said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 full | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 peril | case |
| 5 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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