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title: Jack came down the beanstalk like a rocket, bruv, or what? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Bean… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack came down the beanstalk like a rocket, bruv, or what? Test 8 · ★ 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 a
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

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Jack came down the beanstalk like a rocket, bruv, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** come down · **To what, where:** beanstalk

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t8:1
# text = Jack came down the beanstalk like a rocket, bruv, or what?
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | Jack | the beanstalk like a rocket and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beanstalk=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Very fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t8:o1:1
# text = Very fast
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like a cat up a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t8:o2:1
# text = Like a cat up a tree
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Like a house on fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t8:o3:1
# text = Like a house on fire
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t8:o4:1
# text = Like a bird
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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