Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

Why'd Tom take the short cut past the giant?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, short · What happens: take, cut

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 short	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Tom						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cut	past	the short					past the giant	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past giant=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos it was like half the distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 distance	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 distance	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distance	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 distance	case
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 distance	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cos he wanted to see the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cos not said here	the giant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the far road was flooded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flooded	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flooded	aux:pass
6	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past · passive						cos the far road	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

Option 4

Cos it was quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 quicker	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quicker	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quicker	cop
4	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

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