Test 8 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Where did Dick park his bum to have a think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dick · What happens: park, have · To what, where: bum, think

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 park	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 park	aux
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 park	nsubj
4	park	park	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bum	nmod:poss
6	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 park	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 park	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 think	det
10	think	think	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 park	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	past · do-support	Dick	Dick's bum					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bum=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	Dick not said here	a think					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent think=Patient

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 right answer

on a stone at Holloway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 stone	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Holloway	case
5	Holloway	Holloway	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stone	nmod

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

Option 2

at the top of the hill near the old church and mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 church	amod
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hill	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mill	cc
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 church	conj

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

Option 3

under a tree at Islington

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Islington	case
5	Islington	Islington	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod

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

Option 4

on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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