Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

Why didn't Jack just zap the Giantess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: not jack, zap · To what, where: Giantess

This is test 6 · ★ 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	4 Jack	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Jack	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 Jack	advmod
4	Jack	jack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 zap	advcl
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 zap	advmod
6	zap	zap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Giantess	det
8	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 zap	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 zap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not jack	past · do-support	you not said here						tree rules
2	zap	imperative	you not said here	the Giantess					tree rules

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

She was proper nice to him and gave him food

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	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	amod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		him = he			nice property	tree rules
2	give	past	She not said here	food	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 2

She was his friend, bro

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	4 friend	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 friend	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	his friend and bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was proper nice to him

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	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	amod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		him = he			nice property	tree rules

Option 4

She was proper nice to him, he said, so no zapping her

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	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	amod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 zapping	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 zapping	advmod
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 zapping	det
13	zapping	zap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 zapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		him = he	nice property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	zap	gerund	he not said here	her = she			tree rules

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