Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

what's Ajola, a cat or a dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Ajola

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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	3 Ajola	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Ajola	cop
3	Ajola	Ajola	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cat	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Ajola	appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dog	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cat	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Ajola	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Ajola					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

a big dog that belonged to his dad and guarded the goats on the high pasture

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guarded	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 belonged	nsubj
5	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dad	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belonged	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 belonged	cc
10	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goats	det
12	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 guarded	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 pasture	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pasture	det
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pasture	amod
16	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	a big dog					to dog's dad	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	guard	past	a big dog		the goats	the high pasture			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Beneficiary

Option 2

a sheep that lived with the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sheep	acl:relcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a sheep					with the cow	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with cow=Location

Option 3

a cat that talks, but it's actually a large dog from Switzerland that the family owned

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 talks	nsubj
4	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cat	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dog	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 dog	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dog	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	cop
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	12 dog	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talks	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Switzerland	case
14	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dog	nmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 owned	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 owned	nsubj
18	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dog	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	a cat				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	cat	a large dog	Switzerland	actually property	tree rules
3	own	past	the family				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a dog that belonged to his dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonged	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 belonged	nsubj
4	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 dad	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	a dog					to dog's dad	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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