Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…
What did the table do when Jack said its magic words?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack, table · What happens: do, say, word · To what, where: table, magic words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the table | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | Jack | table's magic words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | word | table | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Filled with bread, cheese and cold ale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 bread | case |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Filled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheese | punct |
| 5 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bread | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ale | cc |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ale | amod |
| 8 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bread | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | with bread and cheese and cold ale | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bread=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Got loaded with turkey and sausages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loaded | aux:pass |
| 2 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 turkey | case |
| 4 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loaded | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sausages | cc |
| 6 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turkey | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past · passive | with turkey and sausages | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with turkey=Theme |
Option 3
Went blank
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 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | blank property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Shrank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shrank | Shrank | PROPN | 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.
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