Test 4 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

no cap, did the monkey get stuck to the waxy statue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, monkey · What happens: do, get

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 statue	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 statue	det
11	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 statue	amod
12	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap						tree rules
2	get	present	the monkey					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, his whole body stuck fast to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 body	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 body	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 body	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 body	amod
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 body	acl
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 stuck	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		his whole body not said here	body			fast property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient

Option 2

Yeah, his hands, feet and even his tail all got stuck to the waxy figure

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hands	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 feet	punct
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hands	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tail	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 tail	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hands	conj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 figure	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 figure	det
16	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 figure	amod
17	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	his hands and feet and his tail					all, stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his hands and feet all stuck to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stuck	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 feet	cc
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hands	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stuck	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, both his hands and both his feet got stuck fast to the big waxy statue

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc:preconj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feet	cc
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feet	det
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hands	conj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	xcomp
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 got	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 statue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 statue	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statue	amod
16	waxy	waxy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statue	amod
17	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	his hands and his feet					to the big waxy statue result; fast, stuck property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to statue=Result

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