Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

wait, did the giant's two heads both get chopped off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, chop off · To what, where: two heads

This is test 5 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heads	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 heads	nummod
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chopped	nsubj:pass
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 chopped	nsubj:pass
10	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 chopped	aux:pass
11	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 chopped	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chop off	present · passive		the giant's two heads	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, Jack only chopped off one head, and the other one ran off into the forest to hide

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 Jack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 chopped	advmod
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 head	nummod
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hide	mark
20	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	Jack	one head		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	run off	past	the other one		into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
3	hide	to-infinitive	the other one not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, Jack cut off one head and the other one kept shouting at him, so Jack had to chase it around the castle yard until it finally fell

The tree, 28 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 head	nummod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
13	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shouting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
18	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 chase	mark
21	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 chase	obj
23	around	around	ADP	_	26 yard	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 yard	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 yard	compound
26	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chase	obl
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
29	finally	finally	ADV	_	30 fell	advmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 chase	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	Jack	one head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	keep	past	the other one			tree rules
3	shout speech: express	gerund	the other one not said here		at Jack	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Jack			tree rules
5	chase	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	head	around the castle yard	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme around yard=Trajectory
6	fall	past	head		finally property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Jack cut them both off, gutted for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gutted	punct
9	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cut	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gutted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	Jack	them = they				off property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
2	gut	participle	Jack not said here					for Jack	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, Jack lopped them both off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lopped	nsubj
4	lopped	lop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lopped	obj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 lopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lop	past	Jack	them = they				off property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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