Test 1 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

Bro, how'd the cat even get the rats?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cat · What happens: get · To what, where: rats

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning ship» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rats	det
10	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the cat	the rats					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus

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

She pounced all over them, lowkey savage

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 pounced	nsubj
2	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 them	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pounced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 savage	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 savage	amod
8	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	She	lowkey savage				over them = they	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory

Option 2

Lowkey savage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 savage	compound
2	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

She chased them round, fierce and fast

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 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	obj
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 chased	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fierce	punct
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chased	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fast	cc
8	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fierce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	She	them = they				round property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

She pounced on each one, fierce and quick

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 pounced	nsubj
2	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 one	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounced	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fierce	punct
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quick	cc
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fierce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pounce	past	She					on each one	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory

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