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Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

«A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.» Why does this count as praise?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this · What happens: count

This is test 3 · ★ 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: «A blessing on that Wild Thing whoever he may be.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 blessing	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blessing	det
3	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Thing	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Thing	det
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thing	amod
7	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blessing	nmod
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 be	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 be	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Thing	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blessing	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 blessing	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Why does this count as praise?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 count	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 count	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 count	nsubj
4	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 praise	case
6	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 count	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · do-support	this					as praise	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as praise=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A blessing is a word in his praise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blessing	det
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 praise	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 praise	nmod:poss
8	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a blessing	a word		his praise			tree rules
2	praise		his = he						nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

A blessing is a word of thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blessing	det
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 thanks	case
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a blessing	a word				of thanks	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Woman was happy about him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Woman					about him = he; happy property	tree rules

Option 4

It is a curse

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	4 curse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curse	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 curse	det
4	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a curse					tree rules

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