Test 13 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Wait, the Cat on the doorstep, what's he dressed up as?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cat · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Cat, doorstep

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Cat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 doorstep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doorstep	det
7	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doorstep	appos
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dressed	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dressed	nsubj
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 dressed	compound:prt
14	as	as	ADP	_	12 dressed	fixed
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the Cat		the doorstep			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on doorstep=Location
2	is	present	Cat					dress property	tree rules

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 doctor, complete with a bag of herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 complete	punct
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doctor	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bag	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 complete	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 herbs	case
9	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bag	nmod

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

Option 2

A famous doctor from the big city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doctor	amod
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doctor	nmod

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

Option 3

A priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 priest	det
2	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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