Test 14 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

Why was the giantess dodgy about letting Jack in second time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giantess · What happens: be, let · To what, where: Jack

This is test 14 · ★ 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	5 dodgy	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dodgy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giantess	det
4	giantess	giantess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodgy	nsubj
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 letting	mark
7	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dodgy	advcl
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 letting	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 letting	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giantess					dodgy property	tree rules
2	let	gerund	the giantess not said here	Jack			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme

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

she feared a burglary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 burglary	det
4	burglary	burglary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she	a burglary					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burglary=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she feared a robbery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robbery	det
4	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she	a robbery					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robbery=Stimulus

Option 3

she was sure he had come to steal the hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sure	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 steal	mark
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hen	det
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		sure property	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	he			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	steal	to-infinitive	he not said here	the hen		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hen=Theme

Option 4

she feared another robbery by the same boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 robbery	det
4	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she	another robbery				by the same boy	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robbery=Stimulus

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