Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's…

wait, the White Cat sounds exactly like his lost girl, so was that just a coincidence or what

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, White Cat · What happens: wait, sound, lose, be · To what, where: coincidence

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1453 «Fairy Tales, The White Cat: the Prince cuts off the cat's head and the spell breaks» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sounds	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	6 sounds	nsubj
6	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 girl	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 girl	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 girl	nmod:poss
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounds	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 coincidence	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 coincidence	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 coincidence	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 coincidence	mark
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 coincidence	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coincidence	det
18	coincidence	coincidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	parataxis
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 what	cc
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 coincidence	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sound	present	the White Cat		like Cat's lost girl	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		a coincidence		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 · ✓ the right answer

it was the point, she was wonderfully like him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 point	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wonderfully	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wonderfully	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wonderfully	cop
8	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	4 point	conj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wonderfully	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the point					tree rules
2	is	past	she					like him = he; wonderfully property	tree rules

Option 2

it was a spell by the fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spell	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spell	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fairies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairies	det
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a spell				by the fairies	tree rules

Option 3

it was the point, she was wonderfully like him, and the fairies had planned it all along

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 point	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 him	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 him	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 him	cop
8	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	10 him	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 planned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 planned	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fairies	det
14	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 planned	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 planned	aux
16	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 point	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 planned	obj
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 along	advmod
19	along	along	ADV	_	16 planned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the point		tree rules
2	is	past	she		like him = he; wonderfully property	tree rules
3	plan	past · perfect · passive		the fairies	along property	tree rules

Option 4

it was the point, because she was wonderfully like him and he could not stop staring at her

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 point	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 him	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 him	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 him	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 him	cop
9	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	11 him	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 point	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stop	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stop	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stop	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stop	advmod
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 him	conj
17	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stop	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the point		tree rules
2	is	past	she		like him = he; wonderfully property	tree rules
3	not stop	could	he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	stare	gerund	he not said here		at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

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