Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…
Did Jack's stick really knock the girls out, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stick · What happens: knock out · To what, where: girls
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stick | aux |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stick | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Jack | case |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knock | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 knock | advmod |
| 6 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girls | det |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knock | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 knock | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knock | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 knock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock out | infinitive | Jack's stick | the girls | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
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
No
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, only the little ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 ones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 ones | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, every single one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1973-pg7439-part32/t13/