Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

Who nicked the magic ass off Jack at the inn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: nick · To what, where: magic ass, inn

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ass	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ass	amod
5	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 Jack	case
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 inn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 inn	det
10	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past		the magic ass		the inn		off Jack	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ass=Theme off jack=Source

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

A traveller who fancied it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 traveller	det
2	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 traveller	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	a traveller	traveller					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

The landlord, the publican, who swapped it for a plain one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swapped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 publican	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 publican	det
5	publican	publican	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landlord	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swapped	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 swapped	nsubj
8	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swapped	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the landlord and the publican	publican				for a plain one	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for one=Co-Theme

Option 3

The landlord's cousin, a dodgy bloke who had watched Jack all night long

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 landlord	case
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bloke	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bloke	det
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bloke	amod
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 watched	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 watched	aux
11	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 bloke	acl:relcl
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watched	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 watched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	a dodgy bloke	Jack			night	long property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The landlord, the publican

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 publican	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 publican	det
5	publican	publican	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landlord	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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