Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

What did the Giant reckon he could smell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, smell · To what, where: Giant reckon

This is test 14 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reckon	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reckon	amod
5	reckon	reckon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smell	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 smell	aux
8	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	acl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Giant reckon					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckon=Eventuality
2	smell	could	he	the Giant reckon not said here					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reckon=Stimulus

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 stranger here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stranger	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An Englishman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Englishman	det
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

An Englishman hiding in the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hiding	det
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	compound
3	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cellar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cellar	det
6	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	nmod

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

Option 4

A wicked Englishman from London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Englishman	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Englishman	amod
3	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Englishman	nmod

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

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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