Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

Bro, how did the monkey finally get on the jelly fish's back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, get · To what, where: monkey, back

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	compound
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 fish	case
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the monkey				Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Eventuality
2	get	present				the jelly fish's back		finally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source

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 was tied on tight

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	3 tied	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	aux:pass
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 tight	case
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		he				on tight	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on tight=Co-Patient

Option 2

he slid off the shell

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 slid	nsubj
2	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 shell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shell	det
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide off	past	he	the shell					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he hopped on and held on

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 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 hopped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 held	cc
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hopped	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 held	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop on	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold on	participle	he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he hopped on and held on tight to the shell

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 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 hopped	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 held	cc
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hopped	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 tight	case
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 held	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 shell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shell	det
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop on	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	participle	he not said here			tight		to the shell	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location

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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