Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

Looking back: in part 1, what did the Cat say each time after the Dog and Horse made bargains?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cat, Looking · What happens: look back, say, make · To what, where: part, bargains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 made	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 part	parataxis
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 Dog	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Dog	det
17	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Horse	cc
19	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Dog	conj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 made	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in part	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Cat	part	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	make	past	Looking	bargains			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

That each was very foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 foolish	nsubj
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 That	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 foolish	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 foolish	advmod
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					foolish property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That each was very foolish and that the Woman would never keep her word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 foolish	nsubj
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 That	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 foolish	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 foolish	advmod
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 keep	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 keep	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 keep	advmod
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 foolish	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 word	nmod:poss
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	That		foolish property	tree rules
2	not keep	would	the Woman	Woman's word		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	word		Woman			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

That they were both lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lazy	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lazy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 lazy	advmod
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					both, lazy property	tree rules

Option 4

That each was very clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 clever	nsubj
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 That	appos
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					clever property	tree rules

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