Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

Jack was proper hungry, yeah, so what did he say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	4 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hungry	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hungry	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jack					hungry, properly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 had a little bread yesterday, no more

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bread	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 more	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 more	det
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a little bread			yesterday		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 2

Hungry as a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He had nothing to eat since yesterday

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	since	since	ADP	_	7 yesterday	case
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	He not said here	nothing not said here			yesterday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He had not eaten a crumb since breakfast

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	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crumb	det
6	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl

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

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