Test 13 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…
What was the lady saying she was off to do upstairs?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 saying | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 off | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 off | cop |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 saying | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 11 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | the lady | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | upstairs property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
wash the dishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dishes | det |
| 3 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 wash | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | imperative | you not said here | the dishes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
finish her story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 story | nmod:poss |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 finish | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | imperative | you not said here | her story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
finish the story she was reading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 finish | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reading | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reading | aux |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 story | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | imperative | you not said here | the story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | read | past · progressive | she | the story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
Option 4
to finish her long story upstairs now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 finish | mark |
| 2 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finish | obj |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 2 finish | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 finish | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | to-infinitive | her long story | now | upstairs property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality |
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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