Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

What did the ogre say he would do with the Englishman's bones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 bones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Englishman	det
11	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bones	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Englishman	case
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the ogre		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	ogre	with the Englishman's bones	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Boil them up for his stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Boil	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Boil	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 stew	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stew	nmod:poss
6	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boil	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil up	imperative	you not said here	them = they				for his stew	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient for stew=Beneficiary
2	stew		his = he						nom stew «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Grind them up into flour and then bake them into his bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grind	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Grind	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 flour	case
5	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grind	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bake	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 bake	advmod
8	bake	bake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Grind	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bake	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 bread	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bread	nmod:poss
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind up	imperative	you not said here	them = they		flour			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into flour=Product
2	bake	infinitive	you not said here	them = they		his bread	then		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into bread=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grind them to make his bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grind	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Grind	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bread	nmod:poss
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	his bread					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product

Option 4

Grind them to make his bread and cook his dinner with the rest of him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grind	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Grind	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bread	nmod:poss
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cook	cc
8	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Grind	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dinner	nmod:poss
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 rest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grind	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	his bread		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bread=Product
3	cook	infinitive	you not said here	his dinner	with the rest of him	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient with rest=Instrument

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