Test 18 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…
★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first. Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: say, mean · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 18 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy», says Wild Dog first.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Enemy | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 Enemy | discourse |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Enemy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Enemy | Enemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Wife | cc |
| 9 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Enemy | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Enemy | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Enemy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Enemy | Enemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wife | nmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Enemy | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 17 Dog | flat |
| 17 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 15 says | nsubj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 says | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
Sentence 2: Whom does he mean by «my Enemy»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Enemy | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enemy | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Enemy | Enemy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 Enemy | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | ★ | by my Enemy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Horse | det |
| 2 | Horse | horse | 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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