Test 13 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

What did the queen reckon when she saw the cat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen · What happens: reckon, see · To what, where: cat

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the queen						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	see	past	queen	the cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

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

She was happy to have her

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	3 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happy	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					happy property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2

She loved the cat

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 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	She	the cat					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She was pleased with the cat's care

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	3 pleased	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 care	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 care	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cat	case
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					with the cat's care; pleased property	tree rules
2	care		the cat						nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She was too scared to touch her

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					scared property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	She not said here	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

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