Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

Oi, what did the cat threaten to do to the river?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: threaten, do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the cat						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cat not said here					to the river	vn act-114-1 «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

Drain it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drain	drain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Drain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drain	imperative	you not said here	it					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 2

Poison the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poison	conj

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

Option 3

Dry it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	imperative	you not said here	it					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fill it with dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fill	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 dirt	case
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	imperative	you not said here	it				with dirt	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with dirt=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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