Test 11 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

Why did Jack dye his hair, like, before going back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: dye, go back · To what, where: hair

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dye	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dye	aux
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dye	nsubj
4	dye	dye	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dye	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dye	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dye	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dye	past · do-support	Jack	Jack's hair					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	go back	gerund	Jack not said here						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

to disguise himself from the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 disguise	mark
2	disguise	disguise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disguise	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 giant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disguise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	to-infinitive		himself = he				from the giant	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination

Option 2

so the Giantess wouldn't know him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 know	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Giantess	det
3	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	the Giantess	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to disguise himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 disguise	mark
2	disguise	disguise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disguise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	to-infinitive		himself = he					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination

Option 4

to appear as a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 appear	mark
2	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	to-infinitive						as a man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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