Test 1 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

Bro, the cat just wiped out the whole hall, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: wipe out · To what, where: whole hall

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wiped	advmod
6	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 wiped	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hall	amod
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wiped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cap	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 cap	det
13	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hall	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wiped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past	Bro and the cat	the whole hall					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hall=Source

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

Yeah, the cat chased every rat out of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rat	det
7	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the cat	every rat		the hall			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rat=Theme out hall=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, the rats still live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the rats				still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the rats were toast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 toast	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 toast	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 toast	cop
6	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the rats	toast					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, the rats are fine and the cat is hiding under the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rats	det
4	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hiding	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fine	conj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 throne	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 throne	det
14	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rats					fine property	tree rules
2	hide	present · progressive	the cat			the throne			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under throne=Location

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