Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

What would happen if the Woman had seen it was the Cat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Woman, it · What happens: happen, see, be · To what, where: Cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 seen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woman	det
6	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Cat	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Cat	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cat	det
12	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Woman		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	it	the Cat	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 · ✓ the right answer

She might not have blessed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blessed	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blessed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 blessed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blessed	aux
5	blessed	bless	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bless	might · perfect	She	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

She would have thrown him out of the Cave and never blessed him at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrown	aux
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thrown	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 Cave	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cave	det
9	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrown	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blessed	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 blessed	advmod
12	blessed	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 blessed	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 blessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	would · perfect · passive		She		the Cave			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme
2	not bless	past		him = he		all			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

She would have shut the curtain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shut	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shut	aux
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 curtain	det
6	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	would · perfect	She	the curtain					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Baby would have cried more

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	5 cried	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	aux
5	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would · perfect · passive		the Baby					tree rules

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