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

What would have happened if the Cat had NOT added «still I am the Cat who walks by himself»?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Cat · What happens: happen, not add, be, walk · To what, where: Cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 added	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cat	det
7	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 added	aux
9	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 added	advmod
10	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Cat	punct
12	still	still	ADV	_	16 Cat	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Cat	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Cat	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Cat	det
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	parataxis
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 walks	nsubj
18	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Cat	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 walks	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Cat	punct
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the Cat			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	I	the Cat	still		tree rules
4	walk in a quote	present	the Cat			by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory

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

The Cat would have left

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	5 left	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 2

Nothing different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Man would have put his things away, and the Dog shut his mouth

The tree, 14 words

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	5 put	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 put	aux
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 things	nmod:poss
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	obl:unmarked
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shut	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dog	det
12	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	nsubj
13	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mouth	nmod:poss
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	would · perfect · passive		the Man				away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	shut	past	the Dog	Man's mouth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Woman would have thrown things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thrown	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thrown	aux
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thrown	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	would · perfect · passive		the Woman					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination thing=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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