--- title: Was Jack a city boy from London, or what? — Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G… · tree and pragmatics description: Was Jack a city boy from London, or what? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1500-pg503-part87/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1500-pg503-part87/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1:… Was Jack a city boy from London, or what? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Jack This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1500 «Fairy Tales, The History of Jack the Giant-Killer, part 1: Jack traps and slays two giants, frees three ladies, and walks on to a Welsh giant's house» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1500-pg503-part87/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t12:1 # text = Was Jack a city boy from London, or what? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 2 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Jack | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Yeah, from London ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t12:o1:1 # text = Yeah, from London 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, he was from Cornwall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t12:o2:1 # text = No, he was from Cornwall 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Cornwall Cornwall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | Cornwall | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} No, he was from Kent ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t12:o3:1 # text = No, he was from Kent 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Kent Kent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | Kent | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, born in London ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1500-pg503-part87:t12:o4:1 # text = Yes, born in London 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | | | London | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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