Test 14 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

Real talk, where did the cat march when the King's coach came?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coach · What happens: do, come · To what, where: cat march

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1083 «Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks the King with game, a river rescue and a fine suit, then reaches the Ogre's castle» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 march	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 march	compound
8	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 coach	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 King	case
13	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cat march					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality
2	come	past	the King's coach						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Right on before the King's coach down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	2 on	advmod
2	on	on	ADV	_	7 coach	advmod
3	before	before	ADP	_	7 coach	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 coach	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coach	nmod

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

Option 2

Off down the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADV	_	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 lane	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lane	det
4	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Off	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Right on before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	2 on	advmod
2	on	on	ADV	_	root	root
3	before	before	ADV	_	2 on	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Down the road ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 road	advmod

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

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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