Test 4 · ★ · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

dude, what did the cats do with the yarn, did they just sit there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats · What happens: do, sit

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	appos
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cats	det
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 yarn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yarn	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sit	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sit	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 sit	advmod
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 sit	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the cats					with the yarn	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past · do-support	cats = cat			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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

wove it into a cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wove	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	past		it		a cloth			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into cloth=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they wove it all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wove	nsubj
2	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wove	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wove	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	past	they	it			night	long property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 3

spun it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 spun	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past		it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wove it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	past		it					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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