Test 9 · ★ · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

What's the name of the mouse's bestie in this story, do you reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, reckon · To what, where: name

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 name	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 bestie	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestie	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mouse	case
9	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 story	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestie	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reckon	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reckon	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 reckon	nsubj
16	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 name	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the name				of the mouse's bestie in this story	tree rules
2	reckon	present · do-support	you	the name not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent name=Attribute

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

Nobody says, it's just the cat and mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cat	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cat	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cat	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 cat	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mouse	cc
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nobody						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	the cat and mouse					tree rules

Option 2

I reckon the mouse's bestie is called Mabel and she lives in the barn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestie	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckon	parataxis
9	Mabel	Mabel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lives	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lives	nsubj
12	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 barn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barn	det
15	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reckon	present	I			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	call	present · passive		the mouse's bestie		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	live	present	Mabel		the barn	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barn=Location

Option 3

Her bestie's called Nancy, I reckon, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bestie	nmod:poss
2	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	parataxis
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bestie	case
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bestie	acl
5	Nancy	Nancy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 reckon	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		Her bestie not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	I						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Probably Lulu, she's the mouse's friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 Lulu	advmod
2	Lulu	Lulu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friend	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 friend	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 friend	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mouse	case
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Lulu	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lulu	the mouse's friend					tree rules

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