Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

What's the clay-in-the-face bit about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clay · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clay	det
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 bit	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bit	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 the	punct
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	compound
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clay	acl:relcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	11 bit	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the clay						tree rules

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

Jack flung a lump of muck at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lump	det
4	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 muck	case
6	muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lump	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Jack	a lump of muck				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lump=Theme at he=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clay	amod
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 clerk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clerk	compound
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	Jack	wet clay		the head clerk			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme at clerk=Destination

Option 3

Jack threw mud at the boss man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Jack	mud				at the boss man	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mud=Theme at man=Destination

Option 4

Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk, and then he legged it out of the hall

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	nsubj
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clay	amod
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 clerk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clerk	compound
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 legged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 legged	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 legged	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 legged	nsubj
13	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chucked	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 legged	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 hall	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past	Jack	wet clay		the head clerk			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme at clerk=Destination
2	leg	past	Jack	clay		the hall	then		tree rules

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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