Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…
Why did Jack's dad go mental at him, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: go, innit
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jack | case |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mental | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Jack's dad | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | Jack's dad not said here | 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
Jack ran off after a fight with the local boys in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 fight | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 9 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boys | amod |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Jack | town | after a fight | with the local boys | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Jack stole from the till
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 till | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 till | det |
| 5 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stole | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Jack | the till | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Jack ran off after a fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 fight | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Jack | after a fight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Jack ran off after a fight and took the best ass with him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 fight | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fight | det |
| 6 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ass | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 ass | amod |
| 11 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Jack | after a fight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Jack not said here | the best ass | with Jack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme |
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