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Test 4 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Ngl, the cat was a good mouser, innit? What did she do to the rats?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, innit, do · To what, where: good mouser

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ngl, the cat was a good mouser, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mouser	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouser	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouser	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mouser	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mouser	amod
8	mouser	mouser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 mouser	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mouser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	a good mouser					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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.

Sentence 2: What did she do to the rats?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rats	det
7	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Ngl					to the rats	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Ate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She scared them off

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 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scared	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 scared	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	past	She	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She hunted them down

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 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 hunted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt down	past	She	them = they					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

She caught every rat and left them all dead on the floor

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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rat	det
4	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 dead	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	She	every rat					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
2	leave	past	She not said here	them = they		the floor			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme dead=Attribute

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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