Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

Mate, the mouse went round to the cat's, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: go round

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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	5 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	's	's	PART	_	9 cat	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	past	the mouse					to the cat; Mate vocative; round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cat=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spinning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spinning	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spinning	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spinning	aux
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breeches	amod
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spinning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	the cat	old breeches					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, and the cat was knitting socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 knitting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knitting	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knitting	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knitting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knitting	aux
7	knitting	knit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	past · progressive	the cat	socks					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Product

Option 3

Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches for the mouse's dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spinning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spinning	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spinning	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spinning	aux
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breeches	amod
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spinning	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dinner	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mouse	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	the cat	old breeches				for the mouse's dinner	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent breech=Result for dinner=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, and the cat was spinning old breeches while the mouse sat in the kitchen all afternoon

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 spinning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spinning	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spinning	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spinning	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spinning	aux
7	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breeches	amod
9	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spinning	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 sat	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spinning	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 kitchen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kitchen	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 afternoon	det
18	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	past · progressive	the cat	old breeches					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme
2	sit	past	the mouse			the kitchen	afternoon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location

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