Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…
Why'd Jack's dad get salty with him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: get
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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 | 6 get | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jack | case |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 salty | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Jack's dad | salty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Cos Jack ate his lunch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cos | flat |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lunch | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Cos | Cos's lunch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |
Option 2
Cos Jack was well late
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 late | nsubj |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cos | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cos | late, well property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cos Jack wouldn't shorten the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shorten | nsubj |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cos | flat |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shorten | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shorten | advmod |
| 5 | shorten | shorten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shorten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shorten | would | Cos | the road | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
Option 4
Cos Jack broke his tools
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | Cos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cos | flat |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tools | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 broke | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Cos | Cos's tools | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tool=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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