Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…

Ayy, when his mum got cross, what did Lazy Jack do for his porridge?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy, Lazy · What happens: get, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1965 «English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut to pieces, Lazy Jack wins a bride, and a cake escapes from the oven» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 got	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
11	Lazy	Lazy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lazy	flat
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 porridge	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 porridge	nmod:poss
16	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Ayy					cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past · do-support	Lazy					for Ayy's porridge	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

hired himself out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 hired	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 hired	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire out	past		himself = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

Option 2

went to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sleep	mark
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

ate all the porridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 porridge	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porridge	det
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		all porridge					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient

Option 4

sat by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sat	imperative	you not said here					by the fire	tree rules

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