Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

The moon wanting a gown, why couldn't her mum make one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moon, mum · What happens: want, not make · To what, where: gown, one

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanting	nsubj
3	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gown	det
5	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 make	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 make	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanting	advcl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 make	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund	the moon	a gown					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gown=Theme
2	not make	could	moon's mum	one					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product

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

She keeps moving about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 moving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She						tree rules
2	move about	gerund	She not said here					about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She keeps changing shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She						tree rules
2	change	gerund	She not said here	shape					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

Option 3

She keeps changing shape every night so the gown never fits her well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changing	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changing	obl:unmarked
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 fits	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gown	det
9	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fits	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 fits	advmod
11	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fits	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She				tree rules
2	change	gerund	She not said here	shape	night		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
3	not fit	present	the gown	her = she		well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

She's too busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 busy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					busy property	tree rules

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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