Test 1 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Leah: «it's giving villain, the Cat tricked the Woman with the mouse!» (it's giving = it seems like) Is that fair?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leah, Cat, it, that · What happens: give, trick, seem, be · To what, where: villain, Woman

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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: Leah: «it's giving villain, the Cat tricked the Woman with the mouse!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leah	Leah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 giving	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Leah	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 giving	aux
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tricked	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	nsubj
11	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giving	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woman	det
13	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 mouse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tricked	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · progressive	Leah	villain					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villain=Theme
2	trick in a quote	past	the Cat	the Woman				with the mouse	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient

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: (it's giving = it seems like) Is that fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 giving	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	aux
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fair	csubj
5	=	=	PUNCT	_	7 seems	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seems	nsubj
7	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giving	ccomp
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 seems	mark
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fair	cop
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 fair	nsubj
12	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give	present · progressive	Cat		tree rules
2	seem	present	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	that	fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No: she asked him to eat it and thanked him herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 :	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thanked	cc
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thanked	obj
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 thanked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	she		him = he	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	it		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	thank speech: thank	past	she not said here	herself = she	him = he	tree rules

Option 2

He never caught it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 caught	advmod
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	past	He	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, he brought the mouse in on purpose and let it go to frighten her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	4 brought	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brought	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 frighten	mark
15	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frighten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bring in	past	he	the mouse	purpose	vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouse=Asset
2	let	infinitive	he not said here	mouse		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	mouse not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	frighten	to-infinitive	mouse not said here	her = she		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Dog caught it

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	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the Dog	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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