Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…
Mate, was Jack's welcome home proper warm? Why was it chilly?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: welcome · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Mate, was Jack's welcome home proper warm?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 warm | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 warm | cop |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 warm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Jack | case |
| 6 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 warm | nsubj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 welcome | advmod |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 warm | amod |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 warm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | welcome | Mate vocative; warm property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Why was it chilly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 chilly | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chilly | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chilly | nsubj |
| 4 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 chilly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | welcome | chilly property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
it was late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | late property | tree rules |
Option 2
his wife had gone away
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 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past · perfect | his wife | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
he had no castle with him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 castle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | no castle | with him = he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
Option 4
he was poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poor | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poor | cop |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | poor property | tree rules |
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