Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Dude, what was Father Gatto's whole vibe with his grin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, Gatto · What happens: be, grin · To what, where: whole vibe

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vibe	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 vibe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vibe	cop
5	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gatto	compound
6	Gatto	Gatto	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 vibe	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Gatto	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vibe	amod
9	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 grin	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grin	nmod:poss
12	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vibe	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude and Father Gatto's whole vibe	Father Gatto's whole vibe				with Gatto's grin	tree rules
2	grin		Gatto						nom grin «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

He grinned, showing sharp teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grinned	nsubj
2	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grinned	advcl
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	gerund	He not said here	sharp teeth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient

Option 2

He sneered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sneered	nsubj
2	sneered	sneer	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	sneer	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He laughed loudly and sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sang	cc
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	past	He not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He grinned at the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grinned	nsubj
2	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grinned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	past	He			the wall			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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