Test 9 · ★ · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…

What got carved on that prison arch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: carve · To what, where: prison arch

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 carved	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carved	aux:pass
3	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 arch	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 arch	det
6	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arch	compound
7	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carved	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 carved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · passive				that prison arch			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on arch=Destination

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

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 2 · ✓ the right answer

Him and his cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cat	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cat	nmod:poss
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Him	conj

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

Option 3

Dick and his cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cat	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cat	nmod:poss
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dick	conj

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

Option 4

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	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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