Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

dude, why was the puma so gutted about the monkey?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: puma

This is test 6 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 puma	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 puma	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puma	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 puma	det
6	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dude	appos
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 gutted	advmod
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 puma	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gutted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the puma					tree rules
2	gut	participle		the puma not said here				about the monkey	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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

The monkey was too fast

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	5 fast	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monkey					fast property	tree rules

Option 2

He had been humiliated by the monkey again

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	4 humiliated	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 humiliated	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 humiliated	aux:pass
4	humiliated	humiliate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 monkey	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 humiliated	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 humiliated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humiliate	past · perfect · passive	the monkey	He			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

Option 3

He lost his lunch

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lunch	nmod:poss
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his lunch					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The monkey kept making him look like a fool

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	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 making	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 fool	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fool	det
9	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the monkey			tree rules
2	make	gerund	the monkey not said here	monkey		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	monkey not said here		like a fool	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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