Test 14 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…
test: Ey, what did Jack say slapped him in the night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: slap · To what, where: Jack
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | 9 slapped | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ey | punct |
| 3 | Ey | Ey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 test | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slapped | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 slapped | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slapped | aux |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 slapped | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Jack | flat |
| 9 | slapped | slap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slapped | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slapped | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 slapped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap | past · do-support | test | Jack | night | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient he=Result |
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
A moth with its wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moth | det |
| 2 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 wings | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A great big rat with her long tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tail | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tail | amod |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A rat with her tail, proper nasty, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nasty | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rat | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nasty | punct |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nasty | amod |
| 8 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 8 nasty | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A rat with her tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tail | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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