Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…
Did Jack chicken out halfway up, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do out · To what, where: Jack chicken
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chicken | compound |
| 3 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 Did | advmod |
| 5 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do out | past | Jack chicken | out property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he kept going, never quit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quit | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 quit | advmod |
| 8 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | he not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not quit | infinitive | he not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, he got scared and stopped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stop | participle | he not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Nah, he kept climbing up and up until he was totally exhausted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 climbing | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 up | cc |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 up | conj |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 exhausted | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exhausted | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 12 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 13 exhausted | advmod |
| 13 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 climbing | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb up | gerund | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | exhaust | past · passive | he | totally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, he just kept climbing up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climbing | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb up | gerund | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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