Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…
innit wild that Jack's got an invisible coat, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jack · What happens: innit, get · To what, where: invisible coat
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 innit | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 innit | parataxis |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 8 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coat | amod |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 innit | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | imperative | you not said here | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present · passive | Jack | a invisible coat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=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 · ← Mova's choice
nah, it's just a boring old coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 coat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 coat | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 coat | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 coat | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 7 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coat | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coat | amod |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a boring old coat | tree rules |
Option 2
nah, it's just a cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 cloak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cloak | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 cloak | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a cloak | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, it's proper sick for sneaking past stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 sick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | cop |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sick | amod |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 sneaking | mark |
| 8 | sneaking | sneak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sick | advcl |
| 9 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sneaking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sneak | gerund | past stuff | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, it's a sick cloak, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 cloak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cloak | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloak | amod |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloak | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a sick cloak | mate vocative | tree rules |
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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