Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier trick…

Bro, how did Jack get the horse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: horse

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1948 «English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, part: a soldier tricks a foolish farmer's wife out of ten gold pounds, then the farmer out of his horse» 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	6 get	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Jack	the horse				Bro vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

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 bolted, sus

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 bolted	nsubj
2	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sus	punct
4	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bolted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	he	sus					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent sus=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he jumped on it and bolted, sus move

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 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bolted	cc
6	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 jumped	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
8	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	amod
9	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	he	sus move		it			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	bolt	participle	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he hopped on and ran, sus

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 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 hopped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hopped	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct
7	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop on	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	he not said here	sus					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sus=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he just nicked it

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	3 nicked	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 nicked	advmod
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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