Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

Was the mum at home when it all went down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be, go down · To what, where: mum, home

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mum	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 went	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mum		home			tree rules
2	go down	past	the mum						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Yeah, she was in the kitchen then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 kitchen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kitchen	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kitchen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kitchen	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 kitchen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the kitchen	then		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she was at her nurse's place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	9 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 place	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 place	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nurse	nmod:poss
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 nurse	case
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			her nurse's place			tree rules

Option 3

Nope, she was off at her aunt's place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 place	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 aunt	nmod:poss
8	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 aunt	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be off	past	she			her aunt's place			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location

Option 4

Nope, she was away at her old nurse's house down by the river for the week

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 away	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 away	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	11 house	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nurse	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nurse	amod
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 nurse	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
12	down	down	ADP	_	5 away	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 week	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 week	det
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			her old nurse's house		by the river for the week; away property	tree rules

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