Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 17: Jack…

how did Jack get the hanky off the shelf then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: hanky

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1958 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 17: Jack outwits a second giant and finds the captives» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hanky	det
6	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 shelf	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shelf	det
9	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Jack	the hanky			then	off the shelf	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hanky=Stimulus

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

he went invisible in his coat, crept past the sleeping lady and nicked it from the shelf

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 coat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crept	punct
8	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	past	past	ADP	_	12 lady	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lady	compound
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crept	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nicked	cc
14	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nicked	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 shelf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shelf	det
18	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		his coat	invisible property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in coat=Location
2	creep	past	he not said here			past the sleeping lady	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past lady=Trajectory
3	nick	past	he not said here	coat	the shelf		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from shelf=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he went invisible in his coat, crept past the sleeping lady and nicked it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 coat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crept	punct
8	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	past	past	ADP	_	12 lady	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
11	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lady	compound
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crept	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nicked	cc
14	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	he		his coat	invisible property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in coat=Location
2	creep	past	he not said here			past the sleeping lady	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past lady=Trajectory
3	nick	past	he not said here	coat			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he went invisible in his coat and nicked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 coat	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nicked	cc
8	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			his coat		invisible property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in coat=Location
2	nick	past	he not said here	coat					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

he sneaked in when the spirit was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sneaked	nsubj
2	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 sneaked	compound:prt
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sneaked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak in	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the spirit					gone property	tree rules

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