Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…
Looking back: who in the Taffy stories lived in a Cave and kept house too?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, live, keep · To what, where: Cave
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lived | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 7 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | compound |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Cave | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Cave | det |
| 12 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 house | cc |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Cave | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | live | past | a Cave and kept house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | |||||
| 3 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Teshumai Tewindrow, Taffy's Mummy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Tewindrow | Tewindrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teshumai | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mummy | punct |
| 4 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Taffy | case |
| 6 | Mummy | Mummy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teshumai | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Taffy's Daddy, Mister Tewindrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Taffy | case |
| 3 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mister | punct |
| 5 | Mister | Mister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Daddy | conj |
| 6 | Tewindrow | Tewindrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mister | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Taffy and her Mummy and all the cousins who lived in the Cave on the hill
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Mummy | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Mummy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taffy | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cousins | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 cousins | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cousins | det |
| 8 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taffy | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cousins | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cave | det |
| 13 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | all cousins | the Cave | on the hill | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
Option 4
Taffy's sister Ellen Wilson
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Taffy | case |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | appos |
| 5 | Wilson | Wilson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ellen | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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