Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

so when he got his head stuck, what did he say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: get, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stuck	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	his head				stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

"I wish my head would get through this"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	ccomp
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 get	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish in a quote	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get in a quote	would	my head			this			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through this=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"get my head through"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	2 get	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my head					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus

Option 3

"oh my god, stuck"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 god	punct
2	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 god	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 god	nmod:poss
4	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 god	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct

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

Option 4

"ugh, get me out"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 get	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ugh	punct
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me					tree rules

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