Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
Gutted, what did the gentleman threaten to take from Jack?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gentleman · What happens: gut, threaten, take · To what, where: Jack
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1954 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13: Jack wins a castle, loses it, and sets out to find it» 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 threaten | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 threaten | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threaten | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gentleman | det |
| 6 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threaten | nsubj |
| 7 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threaten | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Jack | case |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 threaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | the gentleman not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | threaten | past · do-support | the gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gentleman not said here | Jack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from jack=Initial_Location |
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
his gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his beautiful young wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his lovely young daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | 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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