Test 8 · ★ · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:…

Where'd the cat chill at the old couple's gaff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: chill · To what, where: gaff

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 chill	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chill	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	nsubj
5	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	11 gaff	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 couple	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 couple	amod
9	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gaff	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 couple	case
11	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chill	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	would	the cat			the old couple's gaff			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

in the old wooden chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 chest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chest	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chest	amod
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

up on the high mantel shelf above the hearth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	up	up	ADV	_	6 shelf	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	6 shelf	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shelf	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shelf	amod
5	mantel	mantel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shelf	compound
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 hearth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hearth	det
9	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shelf	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

on the mantel shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 shelf	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shelf	det
3	mantel	mantel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shelf	compound
4	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

on the kitchen floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	compound
4	floor	floor	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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