Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

What was Jack's dad's weapon of choice, wicked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: weapon

This is test 6 · ★ 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	7 weapon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weapon	cop
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 weapon	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jack	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weapon	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dad	case
7	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 choice	case
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weapon	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wicked	punct
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weapon	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 weapon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jack's weapon				of choice	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 · ← Mova's choice

A cast-iron pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pot	det
2	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 iron	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pot	compound
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A warming-pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pan	det
2	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pan	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 warming	punct
4	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A wooden spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoon	amod
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A heavy warming-pan that hung on the kitchen wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pan	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pan	amod
3	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pan	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 warming	punct
5	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hung	nsubj
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pan	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a heavy warming pan			the kitchen wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

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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