Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

★★★ Careful: on the second night, why does the Woman laugh at Wild Horse's question «where is Wild Dog?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Woman, Wild Horse · What happens: laugh, be, question · To what, where: question, Wild Dog

This is test 16 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ★	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 night	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 laugh	advmod
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Woman	det
14	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laugh	nsubj
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 night	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 question	case
17	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	18 Horse	flat
18	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 question	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Horse	case
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laugh	obl
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 where	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 Dog	advmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Dog	cop
24	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	25 Dog	flat
25	Dog	Dog	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 question	nmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 night	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	present · do-support	the Woman		Wild Horse's question	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		Wild Dog		tree rules
3	question		Wild Horse			nom question «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She knows he really came for the grass, not for the Dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Dog	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 Dog	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 Dog	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dog	det
13	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past	he					for the grass; for the Dog	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She knows the Dog is not coming back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dog	det
4	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 coming	advmod
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knows	ccomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not come back	present · progressive	the Dog						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She thinks he is funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					funny property	tree rules

Option 4

She knows he really wants the Dog to hunt for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 wants	advmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dog	det
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hunt	mark
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	She			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	want	present	he	the Dog		tree rules
3	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Dog not said here		for Dog	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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