Test 8 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

Did the mouse twig that the cat was lying, or was she clueless?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: do, lie, be · To what, where: mouse twig

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twig	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twig	compound
4	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lying	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 twig	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clueless	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 clueless	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clueless	cop
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 clueless	nsubj
14	clueless	clueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mouse twig		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Eventuality
2	lie	past · progressive	the cat	the mouse twig not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twig=Theme
3	is	past	cat		clueless 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 · ✓ the right answer

She was clueless, bless 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	3 clueless	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clueless	cop
3	clueless	clueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bless	punct
5	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 clueless	parataxis
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					clueless property	tree rules
2	bless	infinitive		her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

She twigged it straight away and said nothing to the cat about the lie

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 twigged	nsubj
2	twigged	twig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twigged	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 twigged	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 twigged	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 said	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 lie	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lie	det
14	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twig	past	She	it				away property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	She not said here	nothing	the cat			about the lie	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to cat=Recipient

Option 3

She twigged it straight away

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 twigged	nsubj
2	twigged	twig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twigged	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 twigged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twig	past	She	it				away property	tree rules

Option 4

She was clueless about the lie but she guessed the cat was up to something

The tree, 15 words

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	3 clueless	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clueless	cop
3	clueless	clueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 lie	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clueless	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 guessed	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guessed	nsubj
9	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clueless	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guessed	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 up	cop
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 cat	compound
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 guessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					about the lie; clueless property	tree rules
2	guess	past	she	the cat				to something	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

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