Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

Ayy, what was the White Cat's wicked trick for fun?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy · What happens: be · To what, where: wicked trick

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
6	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Cat	amod
7	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trick	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Cat	case
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trick	amod
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ayy	appos
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 fun	case
12	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trick	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ayy	the White Cat's wicked trick				for fun	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

A race across the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 race	det
2	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 race	nmod

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

Option 2

A fight with the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 guards	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fight	nmod

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

Option 3

A great battle with a hundred river rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 battle	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 battle	amod
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 rats	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 rats	nummod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rats	compound
8	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 battle	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A battle with river rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 battle	det
2	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rats	case
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rats	compound
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 battle	nmod

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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