Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

ngl, what was the monkey's biggest mistake at the garden?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: biggest mistake, garden

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mistake	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mistake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mistake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistake	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 monkey	case
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 mistake	amod
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistake	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the monkey's biggest mistake		the garden			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

Option 1

He punched the wax figure with both hands and got stuck fast to it

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 punched	nsubj
2	punched	punch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 figure	det
4	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figure	compound
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punched	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hands	det
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 punched	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 punched	conj
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 got	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punch	past	He	the wax figure				with both hands	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent figure=Patient with hand=Instrument
2	get	past	He not said here		figure			fast, stuck property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result

Option 2

He climbed the tall garden wall

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wall	amod
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	compound
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	He	the tall garden wall					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He kicked the figure and got stuck

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 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 got	cc
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	He	the figure					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent figure=Patient
2	get	past	He not said here					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He kicked the waxen figure in anger and then found his foot stuck fast to it

The tree, 16 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 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 figure	det
4	waxen	waxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figure	amod
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 anger	case
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 found	advmod
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	nsubj
13	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	ccomp
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 stuck	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	He	the waxen figure		anger			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent figure=Patient in anger=Location
2	find	past	He not said here				then		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stick	past	his foot		anger			fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient

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