Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Innit mad, why were the spoons wooden and not silver?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spoons · What happens: be, not silver

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mad	compound
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wooden	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wooden	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wooden	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spoons	det
7	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wooden	nsubj
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mad	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 silver	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 silver	advmod
11	silver	silver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wooden	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the spoons					wooden property	tree rules
2	not silver	infinitive	the spoons not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

silver would have gone straight into her pocket and been found out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 pocket	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 found	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	silver			her pocket			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Initial_Location
2	find out	participle · passive	silver not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

silver would have gone in her pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	silver			her pocket			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they were wooden because the bears were too poor to buy silver ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wooden	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wooden	cop
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 poor	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bears	det
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poor	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 poor	advmod
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wooden	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 buy	mark
11	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 poor	xcomp
12	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		wooden property	tree rules
2	is	past	the bears		poor property	tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	the bears not said here	silver ones		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

they were wooden and she liked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wooden	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wooden	cop
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 liked	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wooden	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					wooden property	tree rules
2	like	past	she	them = they					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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