Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Mate, how did the cat get the rabbit in the bag?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: get · To what, where: Mate, bag

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rabbit	det
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the cat	Mate		the bag			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rabbit=Stimulus

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

He sat still and watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 watched	cc
5	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	past	He not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He played dead and waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 played	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waited	cc
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 played	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	He	dead					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
2	wait	past	He not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He hopped in the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bag	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	past	He			the bag			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bag=Trajectory

Option 4

He lay in the grass, played dead, and waited for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 grass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 played	punct
7	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 played	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 waited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waited	cc
11	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He		the grass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location
2	play	past	He not said here	dead			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
3	wait	past	He not said here			for grass	vn exist-47.1 «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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