Test 3 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

Proper gutted, why wouldn't the lady sell Koma, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: gut, not sell · To what, where: Koma

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sell	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sell	advmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sell	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 sell	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sell	nsubj
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gutted	conj
10	Koma	Koma	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Koma	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	9 sell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						properly property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not sell	would	the lady	Koma					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koma=Theme

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

She couldn't bear to part with her

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	4 bear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bear	advmod
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 part	mark
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	could	She					with her = she	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She's just mean

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	4 mean	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	She						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She's too poor

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	4 poor	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					poor property	tree rules

Option 4

She wants to keep her for mice

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 mice	case
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she				for mice	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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