Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…
★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son». Who is the Host's Son?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: call, be · To what, where: Woman, Son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 17 · ★ 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: ★★★ Careful: the Bat calls the Woman «my Hostess and Wife of my Host and Mother of my Host's Son».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Careful | case |
| 4 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 calls | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bat | det |
| 7 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | nsubj |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | obj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hostess | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Hostess | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Woman | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Wife | cc |
| 15 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hostess | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Host | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Host | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hostess | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Mother | cc |
| 20 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Host | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Son | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Host | Host | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Host | case |
| 25 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mother | nmod |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hostess | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | ★ ★ Careful | the Woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=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.
Sentence 2: Who is the Host's Son?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Son | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Son | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Host | det |
| 4 | Host | Host | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Host | case |
| 6 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Host's Son | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Baby | det |
| 2 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Bat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bat | det |
| 2 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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