Test 6 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Why was the cook proper jealous of Dick, though?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cook · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jealous	amod
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cook	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Dick	case
8	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 jealous	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	1 Why	advcl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cook					why property	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

She hated Dick a lot

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	She	Dick				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dick=Stimulus

Option 2

She was lazy

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 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					lazy property	tree rules

Option 3

He had sent a cat to sea and got rich from it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect	He	a cat		sea			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to sea=Destination
2	get	past	He not said here			sea		rich property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from it=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Alice was kind to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Alice		him = he			kind property	tree rules

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