Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

What did the dog bring the cat to start the plan, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: bring, start · To what, where: cat, plan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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	5 bring	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 start	mark
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plan	det
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plan	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support	the dog		the cat				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme cat=Destination
2	start	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	the plan					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality

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

a dead sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a dead hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a dead lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lamb	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamb	amod
3	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the body of a dead lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 lamb	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lamb	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lamb	amod
6	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 body	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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