Test 7 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Was the cat, like, actually singing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cat	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singing	csubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 singing	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	8 singing	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 singing	advmod
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 singing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cat					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund						actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, it just purred softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 purred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 purred	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 purred	advmod
5	purred	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	softly	softly	ADV	_	5 purred	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	past	it					softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it sang in an odd way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	it			a odd way			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location

Option 3

Nah, it meowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 meowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meowed	nsubj
4	meowed	meow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meow	past	it						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nope, silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 silent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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