Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

bruv, what wicked lie did the cat tell every time she nipped out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, lie · What happens: tell, nip out · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	obj
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lie	amod
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nipped	nsubj
13	nipped	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 nipped	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	bruv				time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	nip out	past	lie	every time not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location time=Theme

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

she was godmother to some kid at the church every single time she left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 godmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 godmother	cop
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 kid	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 godmother	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kid	nmod
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 godmother	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	godmother and every single time				to some kid at the church	tree rules
2	leave	past	kid	every single time not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she was godmother to some kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 godmother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 godmother	cop
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 kid	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 godmother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	godmother				to some kid	tree rules

Option 3

she told the mouse that she had to go to a christening party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 party	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 party	det
12	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 party	compound
13	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	the mouse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	mouse			tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	mouse not said here		a christening party	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location

Option 4

she had a cousin with a kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cousin	det
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 kid	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a cousin				with a kid	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient

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