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title: test: Yo, what did Jack rip open with his knife? — English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Yo, what did Jack rip open with his knife? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 15 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the o…

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test: Yo, what did Jack rip open with his knife?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** rip · **To what, where:** test

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1957 «English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-Killer, part 16: the old Woman flees the bears, and Jack fools the Welsh giant with pudding» 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/1957-pg7439-part16/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t15:1
# text = test: Yo, what did Jack rip open with his knife?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rip	rip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip** | past · do-support | Jack | test |  |  |  | with Jack's knife; open *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient with knife=Instrument |

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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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The wooden chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t15:o1:1
# text = The wooden chest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old purse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t15:o2:1
# text = The old purse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t15:o3:1
# text = The bag
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The leather bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1957-pg7439-part16:t15:o4:1
# text = The leather bag
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bag	bag	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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