Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…
Mate, what did the cat shout at the river to get the King's attention?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat, King · What happens: shout, get, attend · To what, where: river, attention
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | dep |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shout | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 shout | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shout | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | nsubj |
| 7 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shout | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 attention | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 shout | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past · do-support | the cat | the river | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the cat not said here | the King's attention | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | attend | the King | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
He's drowning
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 drowning | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drowning | aux |
| 3 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | present · progressive | He | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Help, my master's sinking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sinking | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 master | nmod:poss |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sinking | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 master | case |
| 6 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Help | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | my master | nom sinking «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Help, my lord's drowning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drowning | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lord | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drowning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 lord | case |
| 6 | drowning | drowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Help | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Help!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
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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