Test 5 · ★ · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

Lowkey, why'd Whittington hide the cat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: hide · To what, where: Whittington

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hide	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hide	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Whittington	punct
5	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obl
6	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Lowkey	Whittington					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

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

Scared the cook would beat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cook	amod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	aux
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	would	the Scared cook	her = she					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme

Option 2

To feed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			her = she				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

Feared the master would sell her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Feared	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past							vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sell	would	the master	her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

Wanted to keep her warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 keep	mark
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wanted	xcomp
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 warm	nmod:poss
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive						warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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