Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

Why did the puma fail to capture the monkey at the pool on the occasion described?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, capture, describe · To what, where: puma fail, monkey, pool, occasion

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1260 «Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks fast to a waxen figure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fail	det
4	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fail	compound
5	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 capture	mark
7	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fail	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 capture	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 capture	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 occasion	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 occasion	det
15	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pool	nmod
16	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 occasion	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the puma fail		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality
2	capture	to-infinitive	the monkey	the pool on the occasion	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme
3	describe	participle	the occasion not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

He struck late, and the monkey was gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 struck	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 struck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	He					late property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	is	past	the monkey					gone property	tree rules

Option 2

He moved too early at the pool and so the cunning monkey saw him coming and escaped

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 moved	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
11	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 monkey	compound
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 saw	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 escaped	cc
17	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	He		the pool	early property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pool=Trajectory
2	see	past	the cunning monkey	him = he			tree rules
3	come	gerund	him = he not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	escape	past	He not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He moved prematurely and alerted his quarry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prematurely	prematurely	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 alerted	cc
5	alerted	alert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 quarry	nmod:poss
7	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alerted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	He					prematurely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	alert speech: other	past	He not said here	his quarry					vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent quarry=Recipient

Option 4

He stirred the leaves before the right moment and the wary monkey heard him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stirred	nsubj
2	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stirred	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 moment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moment	amod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stirred	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
11	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 monkey	amod
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stirred	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past	He	the leaves			moment		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leaf=Experiencer
2	hear	past	the wary monkey	him = he					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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