Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

test: Yo, how many giants did Jack choke with rope?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: choke

This is test 9 · ★ 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	10 choke	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Yo	punct
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giants	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giants	amod
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 test	conj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 choke	aux
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 choke	nsubj
10	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 rope	case
12	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choke	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 choke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past · do-support	test and many giants					with rope	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rope=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

Two giants, both proper big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 giants	nummod
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 big	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 giants	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 big	nsubj
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Three giants, the lot of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 giants	nummod
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lot	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giants	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lot	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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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