Test 14 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Ya, who did the factor think of when he saw the rats?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ya, factor · What happens: do, think, see · To what, where: rats

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Ya	Ya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 factor	det
6	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 think	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rats	det
13	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ya		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	infinitive	the factor		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	factor	the rats	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Poor Whittington and his cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Whittington	amod
2	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cat	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Whittington	conj

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

Option 2

The cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Whittington's poor master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 master	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Whittington	case
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 master	amod
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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