Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…
test: Oi, what did Jack blow on his horn, geezer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: blow · To what, where: test, horn
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | 8 blow | obl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oi | punct |
| 3 | Oi | Oi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 test | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blow | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 blow | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blow | aux |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 blow | nsubj |
| 8 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horn | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 geezer | punct |
| 13 | geezer | geezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horn | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 blow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · do-support | Jack | test | Jack's horn and geezer | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice
Tara, tara, tara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tara | tara | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tara | punct |
| 3 | tara | tara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tara | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tara | punct |
| 5 | tara | tara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tara | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tantivy, Tantivy, loud as anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tantivy | punct |
| 3 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tantivy | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loud | punct |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tantivy | list |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 loud | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Tantivy, Tantivy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tantivy | punct |
| 3 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tantivy | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tantivy, Tantivy, geezer, blow it proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tantivy | punct |
| 3 | Tantivy | Tantivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tantivy | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 geezer | punct |
| 5 | geezer | geezer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tantivy | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tantivy | punct |
| 7 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blow | obj |
| 9 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 7 blow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | infinitive | Tantivy | geezer | properly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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