Test 6 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

So they hid the pot in the church, yeah, cos no one would nick it there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, one · What happens: hide, co, nick · To what, where: pot, church

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cos	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 cos	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cos	punct
12	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nick	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 nick	aux
16	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cos	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nick	obj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 nick	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	past	they	the pot	the church	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Patient in church=Location
2	co	present	they not said here			tree rules
3	nick	would	no one	pot	there	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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, they hid it in the church because the priest said it was safe there

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 safe	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	cop
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they	it	the church		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in church=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the priest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	priest		there	safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they hid it under the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they	it		the floor			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under floor=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, that was the plan, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plan	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plan	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, that was the plan, innit, but the cat had other plans for the pot

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plan	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 plan	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	conj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plans	amod
15	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 pot	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pot	det
18	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the plan					tree rules
2	have	past	the cat	other plans				for the pot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient

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