Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

Looking back: in the Taffy stories, who was told off for slang words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look back, tell off · To what, where: Taffy stories

This is test 14 · ★ 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stories	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stories	compound
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stories	acl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 told	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 words	case
14	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 words	compound
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in the Taffy stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert	past · passive		the Taffy stories				for slang words	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

Mam, for saying «bother»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 bother	punct
6	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saying	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 bother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Mam						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bother in a quote	infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Taffy, for saying «awful» at the table in front of the whole chapel

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taffy	punct
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 chapel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chapel	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chapel	amod
16	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Taffy			the table		in front of the whole chapel	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in front=Manner

Option 3

Jack, for saying «awful»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Jack						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Taffy, for saying «awful»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taffy	punct
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct
6	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 awful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Taffy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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