Test 12 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Was the cat a proper legend with them rats?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cat

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the sea» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cat	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legend	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 legend	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legend	amod
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 legend	nmod
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 legend	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 legend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cat					tree rules

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

She laid them all dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	She	them = they					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme dead=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She caught many mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mice	amod
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	She	many mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 3

She killed most rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 rats	amod
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	She	most rats					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme

Option 4

She sat by the fire and let the king's men kill them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 men	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kill	nsubj
12	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	She		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	let	infinitive	She not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	kill	present	the king's men	them = they		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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