Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

Did Jack chop the Beanstalk clean through?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: chop, clean through · To what, where: Beanstalk

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chop	aux
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chop	nsubj
3	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Beanstalk	det
5	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chop	obj
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chop	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	6 clean	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · do-support	Jack	the Beanstalk					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beanstalk=Patient
2	clean through	infinitive	Jack not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «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

Nah, he left it standing tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 left	advcl
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 standing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stand	gerund	he not said here					tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yep, he chopped it all through in one go, no bits left at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 through	advmod
7	through	through	ADV	_	4 chopped	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 go	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 go	nummod
10	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bits	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 bits	det
13	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	appos
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bits	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	he	it		one go		through property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in go=Location
2	leave	participle		no bits not said here		all			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he chopped it in one go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 go	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 go	nummod
8	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past	he	it		one go			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in go=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he left one bit, then cut it after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bit	nummod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cut	advmod
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	one bit					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut after	infinitive	he not said here	bit			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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