Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

test: Mate, what was the reward, like, for the giant?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: be · To what, where: reward

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	8 reward	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reward	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reward	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 reward	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giant	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 giant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
15	?	?	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 reward and the giant	the reward					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

A pile of gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The giant's treasure, every last coin, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 coin	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 coin	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coin	amod
8	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treasure		the giant						nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A bag of money and the giant's lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 money	case
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lands	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lands	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The giant's treasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treasure		the giant						nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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