Test 3 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

So was the gazelle, like, a mate or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: gazelle

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	_	4 gazelle	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazelle	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gazelle	det
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 gazelle	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mate	det
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazelle	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 mate	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gazelle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the gazelle and a mate					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

She looked after it like it was her own kid, proper love

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 kid	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kid	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kid	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kid	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 love	amod
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	She				after it		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	it					like her own kid and proper love	tree rules

Option 2

She treated it like family, honestly, she cared for it every single day

The tree, 13 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	2 treated	nsubj
2	treated	treat	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 treated	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 family	case
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treated	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honestly	punct
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 treated	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cared	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cared	nsubj
10	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 treated	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cared	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cared	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	past	She	it				like family; honestly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	care	past	she				day	for family	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She treated it like family

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 treated	nsubj
2	treated	treat	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 treated	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 family	case
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	past	She	it				like family	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She loved it like a sister

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 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	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 loved	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sister	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	She	it				like a sister	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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