Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Which is TRUE in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: part

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				this part		true property	tree rules

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 Cat tells the Man both bargains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bargains	det
7	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Cat	both bargains	the Man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient bargain=Topic

Option 2

The Dog goes into the Woods and never comes back to the Cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 Woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woods	det
6	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 comes	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 comes	advmod
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cave	det
13	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the Dog			the Woods			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into woods=Initial_Location
2	not come back	present	the Dog not said here			the Cave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location

Option 3

The Cat is named First Friend by the Woman at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Friend	amod
6	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive	the Woman	the Cat		last			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Cat secretly listens to both bargains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listens	nsubj
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 listens	advmod
4	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 bargains	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bargains	det
7	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	the Cat					to both bargains; secretly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bargain=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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