Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

what does the narrator say right at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: say · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the narrator				at the end	right property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

verily, that is how the cat plays her game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	verily	verily	ADV	_	8 plays	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 verily	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 plays	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	nsubj
8	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 game	nmod:poss
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plays	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	play	present	the cat	cat's game				verily property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

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

verily, that is the way of the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	verily	verily	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 verily	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the way				of the world; verily property	tree rules

Option 3

verily, that is the way the cat was born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	verily	verily	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 verily	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 born	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 born	aux:pass
10	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the way				verily property	tree rules
2	bear	past · passive	the way not said here	the cat					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

verily, so it goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	verily	verily	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 verily	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 goes	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it					verily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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