Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Lol, what did Jack shout at the little men to make them go faster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, men · What happens: shout, make, go · To what, where: men

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 shout	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 shout	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shout	aux
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shout	nsubj
6	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 men	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shout	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shout	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 go	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	Jack		at the little men	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	men = man		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	men = man not said here		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

faster now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 faster	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

gallop on through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gallop	gallop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 gallop	compound:prt
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gallop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop on	imperative	you not said here			the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

spur up and put speed on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spur	spur	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 spur	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 put	cc
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 spur	conj
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spur up	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put on	participle	you not said here	speed					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent speed=Goal

Option 4

ride back to the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 ride	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride back	imperative	you not said here			the hall			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hall=Trajectory

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