Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires hims…

fr fr, what did Jack say about the heifers' hiding place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, hide · To what, where: fr fr, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2014 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires himself to the Gray Churl and turns every order against him» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fr	compound
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fr	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 hiding	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heifers	det
10	heifers	heifer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hiding	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 heifers	case
12	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 say	obl
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hiding	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Jack	fr fr					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	hide	gerund		place					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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

Looked in the unlikeliest place of all, the master's own bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	unlikeliest	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 place	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bedroom	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bedroom	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 master	case
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bedroom	amod
13	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle						in the unlikeliest place of all and the master's own bedroom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Looked in the unlikeliest place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	unlikeliest	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	participle						in the unlikeliest place	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme

Option 3

Hid in the old haystack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hid	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 haystack	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 haystack	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 haystack	amod
5	haystack	haystack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the old haystack			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in haystack=Location

Option 4

Searched under the heavy hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 hay	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hay	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hay	amod
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Searched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	participle				the heavy hay			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under hay=Location

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