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

Why does the Cat ask what the Baby is fond of, not what the Woman is fond of?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cat, Woman · What happens: ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ask	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cat	det
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 fond	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Baby	det
8	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fond	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fond	cop
10	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ask	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 what	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fond	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Woman	det
16	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fond	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fond	cop
18	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 what	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 fond	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	the Cat		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		fond property	tree rules
3	is	present	the Woman	fond property	tree rules

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

To win the Man through the Baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 Baby	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Baby	det
7	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the Man		the Baby			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To win the Woman through the Baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woman	det
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 Baby	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Baby	det
7	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the Woman		the Baby			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality

Option 3

Because the Baby is the one who will ask the Woman for the bargain later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 one	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Baby	det
3	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ask	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woman	det
11	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 bargain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bargain	det
14	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Baby	the one					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	future			the Woman			for the bargain; late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient

Option 4

Because the Woman is fond of nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 fond	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woman	det
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 fond	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Woman					of nothing; fond property	tree rules

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