Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…
Jake from Cornwall: «proper job, Cat got by the fire with ONE word.» (proper job = well done) Put it right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake Cat, proper job · What happens: get, do, put · To what, where: proper job, Cat
This is test 15 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Jake from Cornwall: «proper job, Cat got by the fire with ONE word.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cat | compound |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Cornwall | case |
| 3 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 job | amod |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jake | punct |
| 9 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 15 | ONE | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 word | nummod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Jake Cat | by the fire; with ONE word | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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: (proper job = well done) Put it right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 job | punct |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 job | amod |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Put | nsubj |
| 4 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 job | acl |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 8 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Put | obj |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 Put | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | proper job not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | proper job | Cat | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It took three words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 words | nummod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | three words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
Option 2
It took one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
Option 3
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It took two words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 words | nummod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | two words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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