Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

Bro, why'd the Giant end up face-down on the ground?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giant · What happens: end up

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	parataxis
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 down	punct
11	down	down	ADV	_	9 face	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 down	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	the Giant						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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

He tripped on some dodgy stone that was wobbly and loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 stone	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 stone	det
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wobbly	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wobbly	cop
9	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 loose	cc
11	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wobbly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	trip	past	He	some dodgy stone		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory
2	is	past	some dodgy stone		wobbly property	tree rules
3	be		some dodgy stone not said here			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He tripped on a dodgy loose stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	He			a dodgy loose stone			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He slipped on a wet rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 rock	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rock	amod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	He			a wet rock			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He stepped on a dodgy loose stone and face-planted hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 planted	cc
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 planted	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 face	punct
11	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stepped	conj
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 planted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	He			a dodgy loose stone			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory
2	plant	participle	He not said here					hard property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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