Test 7 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Why was the black cat stood on the rock, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black cat · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: black cat, rock

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cat	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rock	det
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 stood	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the black cat					tree rules
2	stand	past	the black cat			the rock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location

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

it was snoozing under the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 snoozing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 snoozing	aux
3	snoozing	snooze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snoozing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snooze	past · progressive	it			the table			vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

it was nicking the wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nicking	aux
3	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wine	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · progressive	it	the wine					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wine=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it stood beside the cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 cock	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cock	det
5	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	it					beside the cock	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside cock=Location

Option 4

it was chasing the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chasing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chasing	aux
3	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	it	the old man					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

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