Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…

Lush, how did Jack get the girl in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: girl, end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Lush	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Jack	the girl			in the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

by doing the three tasks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 doing	mark
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tasks	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tasks	nummod
5	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the three tasks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality

Option 2

by doing all three tasks and then finding the castle again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 doing	mark
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tasks	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tasks	nummod
5	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 finding	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 finding	advmod
8	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 doing	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finding	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 finding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		all three tasks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
2	find	gerund		the castle			then; again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic

Option 3

by sending the mice ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mice	det
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sending	obj
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 sending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		the mice				ahead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

by doing all three tasks the gentleman set him one by one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 doing	mark
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 set	advcl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tasks	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tasks	nummod
5	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doing	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gentleman	det
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doing	obj
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 set	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		all three tasks					tree rules
2	set	past		gentleman					vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme one=Destination

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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