Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Real life: where did dogs come from?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: come

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 come	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 come	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	dogs						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They came from wild horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 horses	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horses	amod
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	They					from wild horses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from horse=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were tamed from wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tamed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tamed	aux:pass
3	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	past · passive		They		wolves			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

From cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 cats	case
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

From foxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 foxes	case
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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