Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Be real, why did women bail on the cat house so fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, women · What happens: be, bail · To what, where: cat house

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bail	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bail	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bail	aux
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bail	nsubj
7	bail	bail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bail	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 bail	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	bail	past · do-support	women			the cat house		fast property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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

The cats were super picky and it was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picky	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picky	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 picky	advmod
5	picky	picky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lonely	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lonely	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lonely	cop
9	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cats					picky, super property	tree rules
2	is	past	it					lonely property	tree rules

Option 2

The cats were super picky, scratched everyone, and the cellar was always damp and cold

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picky	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picky	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 picky	advmod
5	picky	picky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scratched	punct
7	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 picky	conj
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 scratched	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 damp	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 damp	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cellar	det
12	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 damp	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 damp	cop
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 damp	advmod
15	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picky	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cold	cc
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cats		picky, super property	tree rules
2	scratch	participle	the cats not said here	everyone		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
3	is	past	the cellar		always, damp property	tree rules
4	be		the cats not said here			tree rules

Option 3

Nobody could stand the cats, the mice in the walls, the cold, and the howling at night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	aux
3	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cats	det
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stand	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mice	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cats	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 walls	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walls	det
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stand	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walls	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 howling	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 howling	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 howling	det
18	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 howling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	could	Nobody	the cats and the mice		the walls			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cat=Theme in wall=Destination

Option 4

The cats were rude to them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rude	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cats		them = they			rude property	tree rules

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