Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

Jack was starving, innit, so how hungry was he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: starve, be · To what, where: he

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre's house» 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 starving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 starving	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hungry	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 hungry	advmod
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hungry	advmod
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 starving	advcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 he	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hungry	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 starving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	Jack						tree rules
2	is a	past		he					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 · ✓ the right answer

As hungry as a hunter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 hunter	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hungry	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

As hungry as a wolf who had not eaten for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 wolf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hungry	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 eaten	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eaten	advmod
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wolf	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	a wolf				week		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

As quiet as a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 quiet	advmod
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 mouse	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quiet	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

As hungry as a bear that has slept all winter long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 hungry	advmod
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 bear	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hungry	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 slept	nsubj:pass
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slept	aux
8	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bear	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slept	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · perfect · passive		a bear			winter	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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