Test 10 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Looking back: in part 2, what fell when the Woman spoke the first word of praise?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: part, Woman · What happens: look back, fall, speak, word · To what, where: first word, praise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 part	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 part	parataxis
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 spoke	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Woman	det
12	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	nsubj
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 word	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 word	amod
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 praise	case
18	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	fall	past	part		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	the Woman	the first word of praise	tree rules
4	word			praise	nom word «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1

The milk-pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pot	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 milk	punct
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bat	det
2	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The smoke from the fire at the back of the Cave, in clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 back	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smoke	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cave	det
11	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clouds	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 clouds	case
14	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smoke	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The horse-skin curtain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 curtain	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curtain	compound
5	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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