Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Looking back: what did Taffy draw at the Cave mouth in her picture-letter?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy · What happens: look back, draw, letter · To what, where: Cave mouth

This is test 14 · ★ 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	7 draw	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 draw	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouth	det
10	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	compound
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 letter	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 letter	nmod:poss
14	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 letter	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 picture	punct
16	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Taffy not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	draw	past · do-support	Taffy	the Cave mouth	in Taffy's picture letter	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in letter=Destination
3	letter		Taffy			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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

The sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Her Daddy with his hands down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Daddy	nmod:poss
2	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 down	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Daddy	nmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her Mummy with her hands up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Mummy	nmod:poss
2	Mummy	mummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Mummy	nmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 hands	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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