Test 9 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

Mate, what did the cat do that the peasant was mad about?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 mad	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasant	det
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mad	cop
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 do	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	12 mad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the cat	Mate					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	past	the peasant					mad 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

Killed a goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goose	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		a goose					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme

Option 2

Chased a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle		a hen					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme

Option 3

Caught a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past		a mouse					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 4

Crept into the barn and killed the prize goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 barn	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barn	det
4	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crept	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 killed	cc
6	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Crept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 goose	det
8	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goose	compound
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	participle				the barn			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into barn=Destination
2	kill	past		the prize goose					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme

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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