Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Looking back: what did the Head Chief do at the end of the picture-letter muddle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Head Chief · What happens: look back, do · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Chief	det
7	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Chief	compound
8	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 muddle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 muddle	det
15	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 letter	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 picture	punct
17	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 muddle	compound
18	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past			tree rules
3	do	present	the Head Chief	at the end of the letter muddle	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He wept

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	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He threw his boots and his stone axe at Taffy and chased her up a tree

The tree, 16 words

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	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boots	nmod:poss
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 axe	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 axe	nmod:poss
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 axe	compound
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Taffy	case
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chased	cc
12	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chased	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 chased	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	his boots		Taffy			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boot=Theme at taffy=Destination
2	chase up	past	He not said here	Taffy					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He laughed and called it a great invention

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	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 called	cc
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 invention	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 invention	amod
8	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	He not said here	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

He left

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	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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