Test 2 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

Mate, why'd the cat not speak to the dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: not speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 speak	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	infinitive	the cat					to the dog; Mate vocative	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to dog=Co-Agent

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

He was scared of dropping the watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 dropping	mark
5	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 scared	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watch	det
7	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	drop	gerund	He not said here	the watch					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme

Option 2

Cos the dog had told him off for scratching the box earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 told	compound:prt
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 scratching	mark
9	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scratching	obj
12	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 scratching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the dog	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	scratch	gerund		the box				early property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

Option 3

He was sulking at the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sulking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sulking	aux
3	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past · progressive	He					at the dog	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He was scared he'd drop the watch in the sea and it'd be gone

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drop	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drop	aux
6	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 watch	det
8	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drop	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drop	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	aux:pass
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			scared property	tree rules
2	drop	would	he	the watch	the sea		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in sea=Destination
3	go	would · passive		watch			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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