Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Did the cat's boots help him on the roof, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boots · What happens: help · To what, where: cat, roof

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boots	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boots	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cat	case
5	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roof	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the cat's boots		cat	the roof and mate			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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

Yeah, they gripped the tiles well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gripped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gripped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gripped	nsubj
4	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiles	det
6	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gripped	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gripped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	past	they	the tiles				well property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tile=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they kept him steady there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	him = he		there		steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were no use on the tiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tiles	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tiles	det
9	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	no use		the tiles			tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they helped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	they						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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