Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow. What is closer to the true order?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kipling · What happens: have, cow, be · To what, where: Dog

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow.

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	_	5 has	punct
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Horse	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Horse	advmod
9	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Dog	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Cow	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Cow	advmod
12	Cow	cow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 has	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Kipling	Dog and Horse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	cow	infinitive	Kipling not said here				then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: What is closer to the true order?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 order	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 order	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 order	amod
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the true order; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Dog first, then horse and cow, and sheep and pigs and goats all at the same time

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Dog	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 horse	advmod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dog	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cow	cc
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dog	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 time	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 time	cc
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 time	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pigs	cc
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sheep	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goats	cc
14	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sheep	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	19 time	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dog	conj

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

Option 2

Cow first; sheep and pigs; dog and horse later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Cow	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 sheep	punct
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cow	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pigs	cc
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sheep	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 dog	punct
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cow	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horse	cc
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dog	conj
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Cow	advmod

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

Option 3

Horse first; dog and cow together much later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Horse	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Horse	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cow	cc
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 later	advmod
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Horse	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	1 Horse	compound:prt

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dog first; cows, sheep and pigs; horses much later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Dog	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 cows	punct
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dog	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sheep	punct
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cows	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pigs	cc
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cows	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 horses	punct
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dog	conj
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 later	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 horses	advmod

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

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