Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

So why wouldn't the cat spill how she was so clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: not spill, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 spill	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 spill	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spill	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 spill	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spill	nsubj
7	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 clever	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clever	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clever	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 clever	advmod
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spill	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 spill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spill	would	the cat						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	cat					clever property	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

She said guess what you please, for she was a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 guess	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	3 guess	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cat	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 cat	case
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cat	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cat	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guess	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	guess	infinitive			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	is	past	she	for a cat	tree rules

Option 2

She said guess what you please and then vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 guess	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	3 guess	discourse
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 vanished	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 vanished	advmod
9	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	guess	infinitive			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	vanish	past	She not said here	then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She laughed and would not say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	would	She not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She said guess what you please

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 guess	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						tree rules
2	guess	infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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