Test 2 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Why does the Man say «Not when I am near»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man · What happens: say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 near	punct
7	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 near	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 near	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 near	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 near	cop
11	near	near	ADV	_	5 say	ccomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 near	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the Man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	the Man = man					near property	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 Cat asks to go hunting

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 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	xcomp
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Cat						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Cat not said here	hunting					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Cat still says he walks by himself

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	4 says	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walks	nsubj
6	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Cat				still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	present	Cat					by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory

Option 3

The Man is afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Man					afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

The Cat is sitting too near the Man's place by the fire, and the Man wants it back

The tree, 19 words

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	4 sitting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
6	near	near	ADP	_	10 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Man	case
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wants	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wants	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Man	det
17	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wants	nsubj
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wants	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 wants	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	the Cat			the Man's place by the fire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near place=Location
2	want back	present	the Man	Cat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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