Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

What did the villagers do when they heard?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers · What happens: do, hear

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the villagers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	villagers = villager	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

They hid in fear and locked the doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 locked	cc
6	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doors	det
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	They			fear			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fear=Location
2	lock	past	They not said here	the doors					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 2

They cheered and rang the bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rang	cc
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheered	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	They						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	ring	past	They not said here	the bells					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They cheered and offered to serve Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 offered	cc
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheered	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 serve	mark
6	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offered	advcl
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 serve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cheer	past	They		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	offer	past	They not said here		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	serve	to-infinitive	They not said here	Jack	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They cheered loudly and offered to serve Jack for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cheered	nsubj
2	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 cheered	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 offered	cc
5	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cheered	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 serve	mark
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 offered	advcl
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 serve	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cheer	past	They		loudly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	offer	participle	They not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	serve	to-infinitive	They not said here	Jack	for life	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Theme for life=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1537-pg540-part34/t8/