Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

ok real talk, what made the puma so bitter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make · To what, where: ok real talk

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 puma	det
8	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 bitter	advmod
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		ok real talk				bitter property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material puma=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

The monkey kept fooling him at every trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fooling	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fooling	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 trap	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 trap	det
8	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the monkey						tree rules
2	fool	gerund	the monkey not said here	monkey		every trap			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

The monkey tricked him at each attempt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	nsubj
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 attempt	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 attempt	det
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the monkey	him = he		each attempt			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

The monkey outsmarted him every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outsmarted	nsubj
3	outsmarted	outsmart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 outsmarted	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outsmarted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outsmart	past	the monkey	him = he			time		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 4

The monkey kept fooling him at every trap he laid out in the forest and garden

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fooling	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fooling	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 trap	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 trap	det
8	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooling	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trap	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 laid	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooling	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 garden	cc
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the monkey				tree rules
2	fool	gerund	the monkey not said here	monkey	every trap	in the forest and garden	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	lay out	past	monkey	every trap not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Result

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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