Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at…

Sick, what made the rat get scared off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, rat · What happens: sick, make, get off · To what, where: rat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1842 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu: Rasalu outwits Sarkap at chaupur and wins Kokilan» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sick	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rat	det
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 get	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	make	past		the rat		tree rules
3	get off	infinitive	the rat not said here		scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The kitten watching by the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitten	det
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kitten	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	the kitten not said here					by the window	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location

Option 2

The kitten sitting by the window and staring at it all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitten	det
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kitten	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 staring	cc
8	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 staring	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staring	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	the kitten not said here					by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	stare	gerund	the kitten not said here				night	at window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 3

The kitten watching by the window while the horse stamped and neighed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kitten	det
2	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kitten	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 stamped	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stamped	nsubj
10	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 watching	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neighed	cc
12	neighed	neigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stamped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	the kitten not said here	by the window	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
2	stamp	participle	the horse		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	neigh	participle	the horse not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The king's guards at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	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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