Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines…

Mate, the White Cat's portrait thing, that's well sus, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, innit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1451 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 38: the Prince dines with the White Cat and goes home with a tiny dog» 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	13 sus	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
4	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Cat	amod
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Cat	case
7	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sus	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 sus	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sus	cop
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 sus	advmod
13	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 sus	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mate and the White Cat's portrait thing					suspect, well property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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

Nah, the bloke was an old king with a beard, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 king	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 king	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 beard	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beard	det
11	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the bloke	a old king and bruv				with a beard	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, a bit sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sus	compound
5	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the bloke looked just like the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 Prince	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 Prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the bloke					like the Prince	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, just a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 cat	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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