Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

so the duke's daughter was a deer the whole time, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: deer

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1959 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the captives, beats the two-headed giant Thunderdell, then wins a duke's daughter from a giant and conjurer» 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 deer	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duke	det
3	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 duke	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deer	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deer	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 deer	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 deer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the duke's daughter	a deer			time		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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was a white swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 swan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swan	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 swan	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swan	amod
7	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a white swan					tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she was a white deer the whole time, stuck in the castle with the other captives, until Jack broke the spell with the trumpet

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 deer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 deer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deer	amod
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deer	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stuck	punct
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 captives	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 captives	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 captives	amod
19	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 castle	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 broke	punct
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 broke	mark
22	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 broke	nsubj
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spell	det
25	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 trumpet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trumpet	det
28	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a white deer			time		tree rules
2	break	past	Jack	the spell				with the trumpet	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spell=Patient with trumpet=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was a white hind till the spell broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 hind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hind	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hind	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hind	amod
7	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	nsubj
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 spell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spell	det
10	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hind	nmod
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a white hind			till the spell		tree rules
2	break	past	a white hind						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

nah, she was a human the whole time, but the giant had made her look like a deer for a while

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 human	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 human	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 human	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 human	det
6	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 human	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 human	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 deer	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 deer	det
20	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 while	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 while	det
23	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a human	time		tree rules
2	make	past · perfect · passive		the giant			tree rules
3	look	infinitive	the giant not said here		while	like a deer	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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