Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

Jack came down the beanstalk like a rocket, bruv, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: come down · To what, where: beanstalk

This is test 8 · ★ 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 beanstalk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beanstalk	det
5	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 rocket	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rocket	det
8	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beanstalk	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beanstalk	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 came	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Jack	the beanstalk like a rocket and bruv					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beanstalk=Theme

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

Very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Like a cat up a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 cat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 cat	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Like a house on fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod

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

Option 4

Like a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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