Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…
Where did Jack wait before he sneaked into the house the third time?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: wait, sneak · To what, where: house
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 wait | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 sneaked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sneaked | nsubj |
| 7 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sneaked | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sneaked | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · do-support | Jack | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sneak | past | Jack | the house | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
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
In shed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 shed | case |
| 2 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Behind a bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 bush | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bush | det |
| 3 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Under the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 window | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADV | _ | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1951-pg7439-part10/t9/