Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Ngl, what did the ogre turn into to scare the cat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, ogre · What happens: do, turn, scare · To what, where: cat

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogre	det
6	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 scare	case
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scare	mark
10	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turn	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scare	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	present	the ogre		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	scare	to-infinitive	the ogre not said here	the cat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cat=Experiencer

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

a huge lion with teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lion	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rat	det
2	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

a lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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