Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

Mate, who dropped the stone down to the cat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: drop down · To what, where: stone, cat

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 dropped	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 cat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	past	Mate	the stone	the cat			down property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to cat=Destination

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

The falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The head rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rat	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rat	compound
3	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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