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title: Jack was starving, innit, so how hungry was he? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Bean… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack was starving, innit, so how hungry was he? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

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Jack was starving, innit, so how hungry was he?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** starve, be · **To what, where:** he

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre'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/1951-pg7439-part10/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t3:1
# text = Jack was starving, innit, so how hungry was he?
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | past · progressive | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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As hungry as a hunter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = As hungry as a hunter
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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As hungry as a wolf who had not eaten for a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = As hungry as a wolf who had not eaten for a week
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | past · perfect | a wolf |  |  |  | week |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As quiet as a mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = As quiet as a mouse
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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As hungry as a bear that has slept all winter long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = As hungry as a bear that has slept all winter long
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present · perfect · passive |  | a bear |  |  | winter | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**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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