Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Fam, what did the cat threaten the mowers with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: threaten · To what, where: Fam

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fam	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mowers	det
9	mowers	mower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 threaten	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	7 threaten	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the cat	Fam					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer mower=Result

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

chopped small like herbs for the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 chopped	xcomp
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 herbs	case
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chopped	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past						like herbs; for the pot; small property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

chopped small like herbs for the pot and fed to dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 chopped	xcomp
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 herbs	case
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chopped	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fed	cc
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 chopped	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past						like herbs; for the pot; small property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	feed	participle							vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

chopped small like herbs for the pot and the king's supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 chopped	xcomp
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 herbs	case
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chopped	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 supper	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 supper	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past						like herbs; for the pot and the king's supper; small property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

chopped like onions for the stew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 onions	case
3	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chopped	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 stew	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stew	det
6	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	participle						like onions; for the stew	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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