Test 18 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

★★★ Careful: the Cat makes bargains with how many people or animals in the whole story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: make · To what, where: bargains

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ★	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 people	case
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bargains	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 animals	cc
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 people	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 story	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	★ ★ Careful	bargains				with many people in the whole story or animals	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product

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

Two: the Man and the Dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Man	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Dog	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Dog	det
7	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Man	conj

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

Option 2

One: the Woman, because the Man and the Dog only made threats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Woman	nummod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Woman	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woman	det
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Dog	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Dog	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Man	conj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obj

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

Option 3

Four, with the Bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Bat	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 Bat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bat	det
5	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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