Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

Oi, what did the cat threaten the rats with, proper?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: threaten · To what, where: rats

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rats	det
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 threaten	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 proper	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rats	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the cat	the rats				with proper	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rat=Experiencer

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

to tear his ears off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 tear	mark
2	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ears	nmod:poss
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tear	obj
5	off	off	ADV	_	2 tear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear off	to-infinitive		his ears				off property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ear=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to come back with all the cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 come	mark
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 cats	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cats	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cats	det
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	to-infinitive						with all cats	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to kill the bridegroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

to eat the bridegroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		the bridegroom					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Patient

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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