Test 3 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…

Why was Puss in the gutter, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Puss · What happens: be · To what, where: gutter

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gutter	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gutter	cop
3	Puss	Puss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gutter	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 gutter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gutter	det
6	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 though	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 gutter	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gutter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Puss			the gutter			tree rules

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 was well scared of the lion so he dived in the gutter, innit

The tree, 14 words

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 dived	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dived	nsubj
10	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 gutter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gutter	det
13	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gutter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the lion; scared, well property	tree rules
2	dive	past	lion					in the gutter and innit	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in gutter=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was well scared of the lion

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the lion; scared, well property	tree rules

Option 3

He was dead scared of it

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of it; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

He was hiding from the Ogre

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 hiding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 Ogre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ogre	det
6	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	He			the Ogre			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from ogre=Beneficiary

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