Test 1 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

So the cat got the ball back using his tail, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: get back, use · To what, where: ball, tail

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
8	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 got	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 using	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	past	the cat	the ball					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus
2	use	gerund	the cat not said here	cat's tail					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, by swinging from a branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 swinging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swinging	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 swinging	mark
4	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	gerund				a branch			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from branch=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, by swinging from the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swinging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swinging	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 swinging	mark
4	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swinging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	gerund				the roof			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from roof=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, by climbing a tree top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbing	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 climbing	mark
4	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 top	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	compound
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund		a tree top					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location top=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, by jumping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jumping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumping	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 jumping	mark
4	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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