Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Johnny-Cake, part 1: Mr. Fox is cut t…
Gutted for Jack, what did he do to the cheese, lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: gut, do · To what, where: Jack
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Jack | case |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl:agent |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Jack | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cheese | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cheese | det |
| 11 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 13 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Gutted | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | Jack | Jack | to the cheese | 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 · ← Mova's choice
put it in his cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cap | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cap | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | his cap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cap=Destination |
Option 2
left it in the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 left | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | it | the sun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sun=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
carried it on his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 carried | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | it | his head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
dropped it and then carried it home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 dropped | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 carried | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carried | advmod |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 dropped | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | it | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | it | then | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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