Test 3 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…
The mouse asked for a drop of red christening wine, so she was basically trusting the cat, right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: ask, trust · To what, where: cat
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 drop | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drop | det |
| 6 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wine | amod |
| 9 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wine | compound |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trusting | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 trusting | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trusting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trusting | aux |
| 15 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 16 trusting | advmod |
| 16 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trusting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 right | punct |
| 20 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 16 trusting | discourse |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the mouse | for a drop of red christening wine | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | trust | past · progressive | mouse | the cat | basically property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=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
Yeah, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bruv | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the mouse was way too trusting and the cat took full advantage of that
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 trusting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trusting | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 trusting | advmod |
| 8 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trusting | conj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 advantage | amod |
| 14 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 advantage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the mouse | way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | past | the cat | full advantage of that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, she was just being polite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 polite | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 polite | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 polite | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 polite | advmod |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 polite | cop |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | polite property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the mouse was too trusting, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 trusting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trusting | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trusting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trusting | aux |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 trusting | advmod |
| 7 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trusting | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past · progressive | the mouse | mate vocative | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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