Test 12 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

Why did the cat say she was going out, like, what was the excuse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: say, go out, be · To what, where: excuse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1677 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, part 1: the cat and mouse hide a pot of fat in the church, and the cat secretly eats it» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	ccomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	8 going	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 excuse	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 excuse	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 excuse	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 excuse	det
16	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out	past · progressive	cat		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the excuse	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A wedding feast for her brother, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	compound
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 brother	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brother	conj

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

Option 2

A christening, the cousin's baby, and she needed to be a godmother

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 christening	det
2	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 baby	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cousin	det
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baby	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cousin	case
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 christening	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 needed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 needed	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 needed	nsubj
11	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	15 godmother	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 godmother	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 godmother	det
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 needed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	a christening and the cousin's baby						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	a christening and the cousin's baby not said here	a godmother					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A christening, the cousin's baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 christening	det
2	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 baby	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cousin	det
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baby	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 cousin	case
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 christening	conj

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

Option 4

A birthday party for her cousin's kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 party	det
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 party	compound
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 kid	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cousin	nmod:poss
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cousin	case
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 party	nmod

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

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