Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack frees the…

so the old man was properly sus, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 sus	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sus	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sus	cop
6	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 sus	advmod
7	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 sus	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man					properly, suspect 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

nah, he was just a bit weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 weird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weird	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 weird	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weird	obl:unmarked
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; weird property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, he was a lovely old man who had nothing to do with the giant or the spells at all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 giant	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 do	advcl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 spells	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spells	det
19	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nothing	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 spells	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a lovely old man	tree rules
2	have	past	a lovely old man	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	a lovely old man not said here	nothing not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was dead kind and helped Jack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helped	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kind	cc
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead kind					tree rules
2	help	past	dead kind		Jack				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a bit, he lived in a lonely house and kept on talking about spells, but in the end he was actually dead kind and helped Jack loads

The tree, 28 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 house	acl
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 talking	mark
15	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 kept	advcl
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 spells	case
17	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 talking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kind	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 kind	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kind	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 kind	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 kind	cop
25	actually	actually	ADV	_	26 dead	advmod
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kind	amod
27	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 helped	cc
29	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
30	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 loads	compound
31	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	he	a bit	a lonely house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	keep	participle		a lonely house not said here				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	talk	gerund					about spells	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about spell=Topic
4	is a	past	he	dead kind		in the end		tree rules
5	help	past	he not said here	Jack loads				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Beneficiary

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