Test 8 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Yo, were the cats fighting in the kitchen or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats · What happens: fight · To what, where: kitchen

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 fighting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fighting	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cats	det
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fighting	nsubj
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 kitchen	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fighting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	the cats			the kitchen			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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

They purred, they were happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 purred	nsubj
2	purred	purr	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 purred	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					happy property	tree rules

Option 2

They chased mice everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chased	obj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	They	mice				everywhere property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 3

They yowled at the cook and then fought a tiny mouse under the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yowled	nsubj
2	yowled	yowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 cook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yowled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fought	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fought	advmod
8	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 yowled	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mouse	amod
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fought	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yowl	past	They					at the cook	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at cook=Stimulus
2	fight	past	They not said here	a tiny mouse		the table	then		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Co-Agent

Option 4

They hissed and scratched, then purred and slept by the stove all afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hissed	nsubj
2	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scratched	cc
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hissed	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 purred	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 purred	advmod
7	purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hissed	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 purred	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 stove	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stove	det
12	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 afternoon	det
14	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hissed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	They	afternoon		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	past	They not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	purr	participle	They not said here	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	participle	They not said here		by the stove	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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