Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

How did the Giantess snap her neck, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giantess · What happens: snap · To what, where: neck

This is test 3 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 snap	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snap	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giantess	det
4	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 snap	nsubj
5	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snap	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snap	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 snap	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 snap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past · do-support	the Giantess	Giantess's neck					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=Theme

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

She fell on the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She			the stairs			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stair=Location

Option 2

She tripped over the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	over	over	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	She			the stairs			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stair=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She slipped on wet steps down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	5 steps	case
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slipped	obl
6	down	down	ADV	_	2 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	She					on wet steps; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She tripped on her dress on the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	5 dress	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dress	nmod:poss
5	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tripped	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stairs	det
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	She			her dress		on the stairs	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dress=Trajectory

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