Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

Why'd the cat lie down all dead by the rat hole, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: lie down, innit · To what, where: dead

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lie	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	nsubj
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 lie	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dead	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lie	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 hole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
11	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	compound
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lie	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	would	the cat	all dead				by the rat hole; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hole=Location
2	innit	infinitive	the cat not said here						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

to lure the rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive		the rats					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient

Option 2

to make the rats think she had died of hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 think	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 hunger	case
10	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the rats		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rat=Product
2	think speech: other	present				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	die	past · perfect	she		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

Option 3

to fool the cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cats	det
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the cats					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to trick the rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		the rats					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient

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