Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

What set off the whole panic in the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: set off · To what, where: whole panic, house

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	6 panic	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 panic	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 panic	amod
6	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past		the whole panic		the house			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition panic=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

A huge Cat suddenly mewing and scratching at the big front door of the house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mewing	nsubj
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 mewing	advmod
5	mewing	mew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scratching	cc
7	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mewing	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scratching	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mew	gerund	a huge Cat					suddenly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	gerund	a huge Cat not said here					at the big front door of the house	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a Cat mewing and scratching the door

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
3	mewing	mew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Cat	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 scratching	cc
5	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 mewing	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mew	gerund	a Cat not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	gerund	a Cat not said here	the door					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 3

A Cat scratching at the wall

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
3	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Cat	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scratching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund	a Cat not said here					at the wall	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient

Option 4

A Cat mewing and scratching the door, very loudly, in the hall

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	3 mewing	nsubj
3	mewing	mew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 scratching	cc
5	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 mewing	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scratching	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loudly	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 loudly	advmod
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 mewing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hall	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mew	gerund	a Cat			the hall		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	gerund	a Cat not said here	the door					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

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