Test 8 · ★ · Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks…

Did the queen's cat really have a kitten, or was it just a story?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kitten · What happens: do, have, be · To what, where: cat, kitten, story

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1244 «Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks the Lapp, the fish and the asp» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 queen	case
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kitten	det
9	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 story	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 story	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 story	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 story	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 story	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the queen's cat	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
2	have	present		a kitten	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient
3	is a	past	kitten	a story	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

The cat had a kitten, but the queen had no baby girl

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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kitten	det
5	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 girl	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	compound
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cat	a kitten					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient
2	have	past	the queen	no baby girl					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The cat was a witch and the kitten was a fairy

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	5 witch	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 witch	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fairy	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitten	det
8	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fairy	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 witch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the cat	a witch and a fairy					tree rules
2	is a	past	the kitten	a fairy					tree rules

Option 3

The cat had a kitten, and the queen had the baby girl, who was then taken to the forest by the fairy as a gift

The tree, 25 words

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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kitten	det
5	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	compound
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 taken	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux:pass
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 taken	advmod
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 girl	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 fairy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fairy	det
24	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 gift	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 gift	det
27	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cat	a kitten				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient
2	have	past	the queen	the baby girl				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	take	past · passive	the fairy	the baby girl	the forest	then	as a gift	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to forest=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cat had a kitten, and the queen had the baby girl

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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kitten	det
5	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	compound
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cat	a kitten					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Patient
2	have	past	the queen	the baby girl					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

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