Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Gan on, what did the cat do wi' the mouse's tail?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gan · What happens: do · To what, where: cat, wi

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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	Gan	Gan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Gan	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	conj
9	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 tail	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mouse	case
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wi	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Gan	the cat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
2	do	present	Gan not said here	wi and the mouse's tail					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Eventuality

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

Ate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Chewed it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chewed	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Chewed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew up	past		it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bit it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bit	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Bit	compound:prt

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

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