Test 6 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

Bro, what colour was that hen that laid the gold eggs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, hen · What happens: be, lay · To what, where: hen, gold eggs

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hen	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hen	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 hen	mark
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 laid	nsubj
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hen	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eggs	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eggs	compound
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and what colour	hen					tree rules
2	lay	past	hen	the gold eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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

black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

golden brown with spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brown	amod
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 spots	case
4	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brown	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a dark speckled brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 speckled	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speckled	amod
3	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speckled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speckle	participle						brown property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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