Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

Real life: why do kittens chase string?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kittens · What happens: chase · To what, where: string

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 chase	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chase	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chase	aux
6	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chase	nsubj
7	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chase	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present · do-support	kittens	string					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme

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

It is play-hunting practice

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	6 practice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 practice	cop
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	compound
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They want to catch the string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 catch	mark
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 string	det
6	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the string					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme

Option 3

It is a game for old cats

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 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 game	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 cats	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cats	amod
7	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 game	nmod

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

Option 4

It is play-hunting practice for the time when they must catch real mice

The tree, 14 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	6 practice	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 practice	cop
3	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 play	punct
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	compound
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practice	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 catch	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	aux
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 practice	parataxis
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mice	amod
15	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	hunting practice			time		tree rules
2	catch	must	they	real mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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