Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Did Jack actually get a holiday or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: get · To what, where: holiday

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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 Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 holiday	det
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 get	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Jack	a holiday				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer holiday=Stimulus

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

Nah, he was stuck at the mill for seven years straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mill	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stuck	obl
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the mill	year	stuck property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he legged it to the fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	nsubj
4	legged	leg	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 legged	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fair	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fair	det
8	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	he	it				to the fair	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he went home to his mum

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	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					to his mum; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mum=Initial_Location

Option 4

Nah, he stayed at the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 mill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			the mill			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mill=Location

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