Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Bull got bitten by a mouse, innit. How'd the bull feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse, bull · What happens: bite, feel · To what, where: Bull
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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
Sentence 1: Bull got bitten by a mouse, innit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitten | aux:pass |
| 3 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 mouse | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bitten | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mouse | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bitten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · passive | a mouse and innit | Bull | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.
Sentence 2: How'd the bull feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bull | det |
| 4 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | would | the bull | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
gutted and confused, having been bitten by a tiny mouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bitten | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 confused | cc |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 gutted | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bitten | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bitten | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bitten | aux:pass |
| 7 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 mouse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouse | amod |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bitten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | a tiny mouse not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bite | gerund · perfect · passive | a tiny mouse | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
well upset and not sure what had happened to him at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 upset | advmod |
| 2 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sure | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 upset | conj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happened | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | him = he | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
gutted and well confused
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 confused | cc |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 confused | advmod |
| 4 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 gutted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
well cross and fed up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 cross | discourse |
| 2 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fed | cc |
| 4 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cross | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 fed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feed up | participle | you not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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