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Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

mate, why did the drawbridge snap like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗

This is test 7 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snap	det
6	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snap	compound
7	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 snap	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

it was too old and worn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 worn	cc
6	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					old property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the giant was too heavy for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant					for it; heavy property	tree rules

Option 3

the giant had dragged a huge log across it and the wood gave way under the strain

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	aux
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 log	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 log	amod
7	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 log	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	conj
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 strain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strain	det
17	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past · perfect · passive		the giant					tree rules
2	give	past	the wood	way		the strain			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

Option 4

the wood was rotten inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotten	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rotten	cop
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 rotten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wood					inside, rotten property	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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