Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

Why did the Fairy set up that whole bean trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: set up

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 set	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 trick	mark
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bean	amod
9	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trick	compound
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	past · do-support	the Fairy						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

To check what sort of lad Jack was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lad	case
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lad	appos
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive			tree rules
2	be	past	what sort of lad		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sort			lad	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

To check what sort of lad Jack was, since he was a fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lad	case
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lad	appos
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sort	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fairy	punct
10	since	since	ADP	_	14 fairy	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fairy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fairy	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		what sort		of lad	tree rules
3	is	past	Jack		since a fairy		tree rules

Option 3

To check what sort of lad Jack was and whether he was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 sort	det
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lad	case
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lad	appos
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 check	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brave	cc
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 brave	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brave	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brave	cop
13	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	be	past	what sort of lad			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	sort		brave property	tree rules
4	sort			lad		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

To see what Jack could do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	could	Jack						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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