Test 9 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

Real talk, did the rats bite the king's hands or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: rats · What happens: bite · To what, where: hands

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bite	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rats	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rats	det
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bite	nsubj
7	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bite	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 bite	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	the rats	the king's hands					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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.

The options

Option 1

Yeah, they bit his sleeve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sleeve	nmod:poss
6	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	they	his sleeve					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they tried to bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bite	mark
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	they						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, they bit so hard the king bled all over the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bled	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bled	nsubj
9	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 table	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	they					hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	bleed	past	the king			the table			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over table=Location

Option 4

Nah, they only sniffed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sniffed	advmod
5	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	they	him = he					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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