Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the puddi…

did the cat actually save him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: save · To what, where: cat

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1964 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: the tinker takes the pudding, a cow swallows Tom, a fish and a raven carry him far, and his last journey ends with a spider» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 save	advmod
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support		cat				actually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

yeah, it batted the trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 batted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 batted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 batted	nsubj
4	batted	bat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 batted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bat	past	it	the trap					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient

Option 2

nah, it sniffed the trap and walked off, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sniffed	nsubj
4	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walked	cc
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sniffed	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 walked	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	it	the trap				sound obl	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme
2	walk off	past							vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it batted the trap till the wires broke, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 batted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 batted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 batted	nsubj
4	batted	bat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 batted	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 broke	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wires	det
9	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 batted	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bat	past	it	the trap					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient
2	break	past	the wires	sound					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sound=Patient

Option 4

yeah, it pawed the trap till the wires snapped, sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pawed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pawed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pawed	nsubj
4	pawed	paw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pawed	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 snapped	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wires	det
9	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 snapped	nsubj
10	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pawed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paw	past	it	the trap					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient
2	snap	past	the wires	sound					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme

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