Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…
did Jack get the girl in the end, or what, fam?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: girl, end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fam | punct |
| 13 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 what | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Jack | the girl | in the end | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent girl=Beneficiary what=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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the king got them married and they lived happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lived | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lived | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the king | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | participle | them = they not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | live | past | they | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, they got hitched after a while
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hitched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hitched | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hitched | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hitched | aux:pass |
| 5 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 while | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hitched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch | past · passive | they | while | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, they married
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 married | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | they | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
nah, she went back to her dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dad | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dad | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | she | to her dad result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dad=Result |
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