Test 14 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Why nearly did the captain not give the cat up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: not give up · To what, where: cat

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 give	advmod
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 give	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 captain	det
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 give	advmod
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past · do-support	the captain	the cat				nearly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Source

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

The rats might wreck the cargo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rats	det
2	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wreck	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wreck	aux
4	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cargo	det
6	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wreck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	might	the rats	the cargo					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Patient

Option 2

The king had asked for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	the king					for her = she	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cat was his favourite pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pet	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pet	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pet	amod
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Cats are not allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Cats					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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