Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

test: Mate, what was the Welsh giant planning, honest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: be · To what, where: Welsh giant planning

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Mate	punct
3	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 planning	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 planning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 planning	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 planning	det
8	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 planning	amod
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 planning	amod
10	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honest	punct
12	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 planning	amod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	test and Mate and the Welsh giant planning	the Welsh giant planning					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To drown Jack at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drown	mark
2	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drown	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	to-infinitive		Jack			dawn		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient

Option 2

To trap Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trap	mark
2	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	to-infinitive		Jack					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient

Option 3

To eat Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		Jack					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To bash Jack in his sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bash	mark
2	bash	bash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bash	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleep	nmod:poss
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	to-infinitive		Jack		Jack's sleep			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent jack=Theme in sleep=Destination
2	sleep		Jack						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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