Test 6 · ★ · tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Prince…

Hang on, she chopped her own finger off for the last step?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: hang on, chop off · To what, where: own finger

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 finger	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 finger	amod
8	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 step	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 step	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 step	amod
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chop off	past	she	her own finger				for the last step	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

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

Nah, she used her finger as a peg and it stuck to the roof beams, bruv

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 peg	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 peg	det
9	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stuck	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stuck	nsubj
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 beams	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beams	det
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beams	compound
16	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stuck	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beams	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	her finger				as a peg	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent finger=Duration as peg=Attribute
2	stick	past	finger					to the roof beams and bruv	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it stuck like the bones did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 bones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bones	det
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	it						tree rules
2	do	past	the bones						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she chopped it off and it stuck like the bones did, proper gross

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chopped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 chopped	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	nsubj
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chopped	conj
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bones	det
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stuck	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gross	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gross	amod
16	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	she	it	proper gross obl	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stick	present	it			tree rules
3	do	past	the bones			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she cut it with a blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 blade	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blade	det
8	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	she	it				with a blade	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with blade=Instrument

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