Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

Wait, did the cat talk to Rudy in words?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cat · What happens: wait, talk · To what, where: Rudy, words

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Rudy	case
8	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 words	case
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	past · do-support	the cat		Rudy	words			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to rudy=Co-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

No, it just said mew at the door and nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mew	mew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nothing	cc
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 door	conj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 mew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mew	infinitive						at the door	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at door=Stimulus

Option 2

No, it only purred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 purred	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 purred	nsubj:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 purred	advmod
5	purred	purr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purr	participle · passive		it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it just said "mew"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mew	punct
7	mew	mew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 mew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	mew					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mew=Topic

Option 4

Yes, it said his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it	his name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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