Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

how did the giant even know Jack was there, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 giant	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	xcomp
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 there	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 know	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present						giant property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Jack					there property	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

he could tell by the bright light of Jack's torch shining through the gate

The tree, 15 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	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 light	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 torch	case
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 torch	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Jack	case
11	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
12	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 torch	acl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	he			by the bright light of Jack's torch	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shine	gerund	Jack's torch not said here		the gate		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Location
3	light			Jack's torch			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

he spotted him from the tower

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 spotted	nsubj
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spotted	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	he		him = he	the tower			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he sniffed him out, said he smelt blood

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 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 sniffed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smelt	nsubj
8	smelt	smelt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smelt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sniff out	past	he	him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	smelt	infinitive	he	blood	tree rules

Option 4

he just guessed where he was

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	3 guessed	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 guessed	advmod
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 was	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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