Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…
Looking back: what were the three sounds of the three magic signs?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, be · To what, where: three sounds
This is test 11 · ★★ 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 | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounds | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 sounds | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sounds | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sounds | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sounds | nummod |
| 8 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Looking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 signs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 signs | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 signs | nummod |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 signs | amod |
| 13 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sounds | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the three sounds | of the three magic signs | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Whoosh, puff, ffft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whoosh | whoosh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 puff | punct |
| 3 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whoosh | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ffft | punct |
| 5 | ffft | ffft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whoosh | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ahh, ohh, sshhh-sshhh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahh | ahh | INTJ | _ | 7 sshhh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ahh | punct |
| 3 | ohh | ohh | INTJ | _ | 1 Ahh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ahh | punct |
| 5 | sshhh | sshhh | INTJ | _ | 1 Ahh | discourse |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ahh | punct |
| 7 | sshhh | sshhh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Humph, humph, humph
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humph | humph | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 humph | punct |
| 3 | humph | humph | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Humph | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 humph | punct |
| 5 | humph | humph | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Humph | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humph | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | humph | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | humph | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Bang, crash, thunder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crash | punct |
| 3 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bang | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thunder | punct |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bang | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/t11/