Test 12 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…
Chill, what did the Queen cry when she stroked puss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: chill, cry, stroke · To what, where: puss
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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 | Chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cry | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 cry | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cry | nsubj |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chill | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 stroked | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stroked | nsubj |
| 10 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cry | advcl |
| 11 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stroked | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | imperative | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · do-support | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stroke | past | Queen | puss | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puss=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 · ← Mova's choice
Soft, soft!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 soft | punct |
| 3 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Soft | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soft | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
What a lovely creature, what a sweet little friend!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 creature | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 creature | det |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 friend | punct |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 friend | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friend | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friend | amod |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creature | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 creature | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Puss, puss, dear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 puss | punct |
| 3 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Puss | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Puss | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Putty, putty!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 putty | punct |
| 3 | putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putty | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Putty | punct |
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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