Test 17 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

★★★ The Woman makes a Magic «that should prevent her from saying a third word». Why is it funny that the Still Magic itself brings the mouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, that, word, Still Magic · What happens: make, prevent, say, be, bring · To what, where: Magic, ★, third word, mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ The Woman makes a Magic «that should prevent her from saying a third word».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	5 Woman	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Magic	det
8	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 prevent	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 prevent	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 prevent	aux
12	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prevent	obj
14	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 saying	mark
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 prevent	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 word	amod
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 prevent	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	★ ★ the Woman	a Magic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
2	prevent in a quote	should	that	★	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	that not said here	a third word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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: Why is it funny that the Still Magic itself brings the mouse?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 brings	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Magic	det
7	Still	Still	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Magic	compound
8	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 brings	nsubj
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 Magic	nmod:unmarked
10	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brings	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	word					funny property	tree rules
2	bring	present	the Still Magic Magic		the mouse				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Cat made the Magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Magic	det
5	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Cat	the Magic					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her own magic made the stillness that let the mouse out, so she praises the Cat after all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 magic	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 magic	amod
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stillness	det
6	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stillness	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 praises	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 praises	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 praises	nsubj
15	praises	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 praises	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 praises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	Her own magic	the stillness		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stillness=Product
2	let out	past	the stillness	the mouse		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	praise	present	magic	the Cat	after all	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 3

The mouse is magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 magic	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magic	cop
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the mouse	magic					tree rules

Option 4

It isn't funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 funny	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 funny	advmod
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					funny property	tree rules

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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