Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

What did Jack's sweetheart have in her apron, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sweetheart · What happens: do, have · To what, where: apron

This is test 8 · ★ 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 sweetheart	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Jack	case
5	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 apron	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 apron	nmod:poss
9	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 have	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	have	present	Jack's sweetheart			sweetheart's apron			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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

A pile of gold coins and some jewels that she kept hidden away in the apron

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jewels	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 jewels	det
8	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coins	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 kept	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 coins	acl:relcl
12	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 away	amod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 apron	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 apron	det
16	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	gold coins and some jewels		the apron		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme in apron=Location
2	hide away	participle							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A handful of bread and cheese, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cheese	cc
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	conj

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

Option 3

Only two copper pennies, that was it, nothing more at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 pennies	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pennies	nummod
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pennies	compound
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 it	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 it	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pennies	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 it	appos
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 nothing	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only two copper pennies, that was it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 pennies	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pennies	nummod
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pennies	compound
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pennies	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 it	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pennies	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	two copper pennies	it					tree rules

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