Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

What did Jack's stick do to the publican?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stick · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stick	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jack	case
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 publican	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 publican	det
9	publican	publican	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	do	present	Jack's stick					to the publican	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Walloped him till he gave up the goods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walloped	wallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Walloped	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walloped	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goods	det
8	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wallop	past		him = he					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	give up	past	he	the goods					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Source

Option 2

Tipped him into the ditch by the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tipped	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ditch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ditch	det
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tipped	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	past		him = he				into the ditch result; by the road	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into ditch=Result

Option 3

Walloped him till he gave up the goods and then walloped him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walloped	wallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Walloped	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 gave	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walloped	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goods	det
8	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 gave	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walloped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 walloped	advmod
11	walloped	wallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walloped	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walloped	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 walloped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wallop	past		him = he		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	give up	past	he	the goods		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Source
3	wallop	past		him = he	then; again	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Shoved him off the counter and out the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shoved	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 counter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 counter	det
5	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shoved	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 door	cc
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	past		him = he		the counter and the door			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme off counter=Initial_Location

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