Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

Did the parson get stuck too?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parson · What happens: get

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parson	det
3	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the parson					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

Yeah, he got stuck like a muppet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 muppet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 muppet	det
8	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl

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

Option 2

Yeah, he got stuck right at the end of the line and hung on like a total muppet

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	9 end	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 line	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 line	det
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hung	cc
14	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stuck	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 hung	compound:prt
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 muppet	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 muppet	det
18	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 muppet	amod
19	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	participle						like a total muppet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he hung on like a total muppet and the girls laughed at him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 hung	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 muppet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 muppet	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muppet	amod
9	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girls	det
12	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hung	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	past	he					like a total muppet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	the girls					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he hung on like a total muppet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 hung	compound:prt
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 muppet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 muppet	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muppet	amod
9	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	past	he					like a total muppet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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