Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

What was the Giant's last request for the harp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giant last request · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 request	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 request	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Giant	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 request	amod
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 harp	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 harp	det
10	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 request	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Giant last request for the harp						tree rules

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

A merry tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tune	det
2	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tune	amod
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A slow, sweet lullaby to send him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lullaby	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lullaby	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 slow	punct
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lullaby	amod
5	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 send	mark
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lullaby	acl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 send	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	to-infinitive		him = he					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lullaby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lullaby	det
2	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A dirge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dirge	det
2	dirge	dirge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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