Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Snuff-box, part 13…
Lol, what did the valet nick off Jack?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: valet · What happens: nick off · To what, where: Jack
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 nick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 nick | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nick | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valet | det |
| 6 | valet | valet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nick | nsubj |
| 7 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 nick | compound:prt |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nick | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick off | past · do-support | the valet | Jack | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary jack=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
the silver snuff-box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 snuff | punct |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his whole bag of gold and the golden snuff-box together
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 | 3 bag | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bag | amod |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bag | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 box | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 box | amod |
| 9 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 snuff | punct |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bag | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 box | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the golden snuff-box right out of his coat pocket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 snuff | punct |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 pocket | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pocket | compound |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the golden snuff-box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 box | amod |
| 3 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 snuff | punct |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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