Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

so the eagle had to take Jack back on his back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle · What happens: have, take back · To what, where: Jack, back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the eagle						tree rules
2	take back	to-infinitive	the eagle not said here	Jack		eagle's back			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jack=Theme on back=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he carried him all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	he	him = he				all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he carried the box instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	he	the box				instead property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he carried him all the way and never once put him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 put	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carried	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	he	him = he				all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not put down	infinitive	he not said here		him = he			once property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

Option 4

Yeah, he carried him all the way back to the castle on his back

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl:unmarked
9	back	back	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	he	him = he		his back		to the castle; all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination

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