Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…
Did the giant have a massive club?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: have · To what, where: massive club
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 club | det |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 club | amod |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · do-support | the giant | a massive club | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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
Yeah, he fetched a heavy wooden club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fetched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fetched | nsubj |
| 4 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 club | amod |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 club | amod |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | he | a heavy wooden club | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he grabbed it from the cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | it | the cave | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from cave=Source |
Option 3
Yeah, he went back into his cave and dragged out a huge club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dragged | cc |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 dragged | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 club | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 club | amod |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dragged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | he | his cave | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drag out | participle | he not said here | a huge club | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he went back in his cave for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | he | his cave | for cave | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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