Test 13 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

So at the end, what's Gon spotting, a big cat bullying a little one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gon, big cat · What happens: spot, bully · To what, where: end, little one

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 end	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spotting	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 spotting	obj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spotting	aux
8	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spotting	nsubj
9	spotting	spot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 end	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cat	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cat	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cat	amod
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	conj
14	bullying	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 cat	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bullying	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	present · progressive	Gon	the end and a big cat					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Destination
2	bully	gerund	a big cat not said here	a little one					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

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

A big cat bullying a little one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bullying	nsubj
4	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bullying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	gerund	a big cat	a little one					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

Option 2

Two kittens playing in grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kittens	nummod
2	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kittens	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 grass	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	Two kittens not said here			grass			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A dog chasing a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dog	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund	a dog not said here	a cat					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 4

A cat sleeping by the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cat	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund	a cat not said here					by the wall	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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