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

What did the cat threaten the mowers with, proper scary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: threaten · To what, where: mowers

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 threaten	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threaten	nsubj
5	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mowers	det
7	mowers	mower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 threaten	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 scary	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 with	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scary	amod
11	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 threaten	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the cat	the mowers				with proper scary	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer mower=Result

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

Mince-meat chopping with a great sharp axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mince	mince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mince	punct
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopping	compound
4	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 axe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 axe	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 axe	amod
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 axe	amod
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopping	nmod

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

Option 2

Threat of a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 club	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 club	det
4	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threat	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Mince-meat chopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mince	mince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meat	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mince	punct
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopping	compound
4	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Chopping with an axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 axe	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	gerund						with a axe	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with axe=Instrument

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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