Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

the maid was a cat named Miss Cat? that's kinda funny, fr

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maid, cat, that · What happens: be, name · To what, where: cat, Miss Cat

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cat	acl
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Cat	compound
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 named	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 funny	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 funny	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 funny	cop
12	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	13 funny	advmod
13	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fr	punct
15	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 funny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the maid	a cat		tree rules
2	name	participle	a cat not said here	Miss Cat		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
3	is	present	that		funny, kinda property	tree rules

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

yep, she did all the cooking and also sat by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cooking	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cooking	det
7	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	all cooking					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality
2	sit	past	she not said here					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

Option 2

yeah, she cleaned the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cleaned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cleaned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cleaned	nsubj
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	she	the house					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 3

nope, she was actually the wolf in disguise and cooked for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 wolf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wolf	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 wolf	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cooked	cc
11	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wolf	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the wolf		disguise		actually property	tree rules
2	cook	participle	she not said here					for everyone	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for everyone=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, she did all the cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cooking	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cooking	det
7	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	all cooking					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality

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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