Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack the Fool, part 33: Jack hires hims…

lol, why did the master say "yes" to fines every time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: say · To what, where: fines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 master	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 yes	punct
9	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 say	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 yes	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 fines	case
12	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the master		fines		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to fine=Recipient

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

Cause he got totally bamboozled by Jack's sneaky wordplay and couldn't win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 bamboozled	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bamboozled	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bamboozled	aux:pass
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 bamboozled	advmod
5	bamboozled	bamboozle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 wordplay	case
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wordplay	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Jack	case
9	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wordplay	amod
10	wordplay	wordplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bamboozled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 win	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 win	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 win	advmod
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bamboozled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bamboozle	past · passive	Jack's sneaky wordplay	he				totally property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	not win	could	Jack's sneaky wordplay not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cause the fine thing was a trap he never saw coming at all, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trap	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trap	det
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trap	acl:relcl
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 saw	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 coming	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trap	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is a	past	the fine thing	a trap		tree rules
3	not see	past	he	a trap not said here		tree rules
4	come	gerund	a trap not said here		all	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he got bamboozled by Jack's wordplay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 bamboozled	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bamboozled	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bamboozled	aux:pass
4	bamboozled	bamboozle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 wordplay	case
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wordplay	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jack	case
8	wordplay	wordplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bamboozled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bamboozle	past · passive	Jack's wordplay	he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

Cause he liked fining Jack every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fining	fine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Jack	amod
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	Cause	fining Jack			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jack=Theme
2	fine	gerund							vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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