Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Wait, did the cat really hide the clothes under a stone?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, hide · To what, where: cat, clothes, stone

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 hide	advmod
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clothes	det
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 hide	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	the cat		tree rules
3	hide	present	you not said here	the clothes	a stone	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient under stone=Location

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

Nah, he dropped them in a ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	them = they		a ditch			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in ditch=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, he hid them under a big stone by the river and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	them = they		a big stone		by the river	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under stone=Location
2	run	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he stuffed them under a big stone at the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuffed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuffed	nsubj
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuffed	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuffed	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	compound
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	past	he	them = they		a big stone		at the river bank	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme under stone=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he hid them under a big stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stone	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stone	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he	them = they		a big stone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under stone=Location

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