Test 5 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

The cat licked the top off the pot, that's proper dodgy, innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, that · What happens: lick, be · To what, where: top, pot

This is test 5 · ★ 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 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 licked	nsubj
3	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 licked	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 pot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 licked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dodgy	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 dodgy	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dodgy	cop
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dodgy	amod
13	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 licked	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 licked	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past	the cat	the top		the pot			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent top=Theme off pot=Source
2	is	present	that					dodgy property	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

Nah, she was just tasting it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tasting	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 tasting	advmod
6	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past · progressive	she	it					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, that was a proper plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a proper plan					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that was well dodgy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dodgy	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that					mate vocative; dodgy, well property	tree rules

Option 4

Proper fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fair	amod
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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