Test 13 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Real talk, what did the cat do in the Queen's lap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do · To what, where: cat, lap

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 lap	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lap	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Queen	case
13	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Real talk	the cat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
2	do	present	Real talk			the Queen's lap			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 purred and sang and then leapt out of the window onto the lawn

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 purred	nsubj
2	purred	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sang	cc
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 purred	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leapt	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 leapt	advmod
7	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 purred	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 window	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leapt	obl
12	onto	onto	ADP	_	14 lawn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lawn	det
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leapt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	purr	past	She				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	She not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leapt out	infinitive	She not said here	the window	the lawn	then	tree rules

Option 2

Purred loudly and cuddled close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Purred	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cuddled	cc
4	cuddled	cuddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Purred	conj
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 cuddled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	participle						loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cuddle	participle						close property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She climbed onto the royal bed and purred until the morning light

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 bed	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bed	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bed	amod
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 purred	cc
8	purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 climbed	conj
9	until	until	ADP	_	12 light	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 light	compound
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	She			the royal bed			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto bed=Trajectory
2	purr	participle	She not said here				until the morning light		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Purred and sang herself to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sang	parataxis
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sang	cc
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sang	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	purr	participle		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	herself = she	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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