Test 5 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Mate, what was the venture thing he sent on the boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, he · What happens: be, send · To what, where: venture thing, boat

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	compound
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 boat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the venture thing	the venture thing					tree rules
2	send	past	he	the venture thing not said here		the boat			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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

the old cat that lived in the garret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cat	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garret	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garret	det
8	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old cat			the garret			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cat	nmod:poss
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

his shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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