Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

What did the golden hen do when the ogre said "Lay"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: do, say, lay · To what, where: golden hen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	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	5 hen	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hen	amod
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 said	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ogre	det
9	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Lay	punct
12	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Lay	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the golden hen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the ogre		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lay in a quote	infinitive			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It flew up to the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	It					to the roof result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roof=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It went back to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	It						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It laid a golden egg and then went straight back to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 back	advmod
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	lay	past	It	a golden egg		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	go	past			then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It laid a golden egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 egg	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 egg	amod
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	It	a golden egg					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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