Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Looking back: which earlier character also made a clever bargain that ended in a useful gift?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever bargain · What happens: look back, character, make, end · To what, where: clever bargain, useful gift

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	8 made	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 character	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 character	nsubj
5	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 character	amod
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 made	advmod
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bargain	det
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bargain	amod
11	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ended	nsubj
13	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bargain	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 gift	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gift	det
16	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gift	amod
17	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ended	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	character					tree rules
3	make	past		a clever bargain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product
4	end	past	a clever bargain		a useful gift	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Stranger-man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The Camel, who bargained with the Djinn for three days' rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bargained	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bargained	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bargained	nsubj
5	bargained	bargain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Djinn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Djinn	det
8	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bargained	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 rest	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rest	compound
12	'	's	PART	_	11 days	case
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bargained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bargain	past	the Camel					with the Djinn; for days rest	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with djinn=Co-Agent

Option 3

Painted Jaguar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		Jaguar					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jaguar=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pau Amma, who chose all the gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chose	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 chose	nsubj
5	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pau	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 gifts	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gifts	det
8	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	Pau	all gifts					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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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