Test 4 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Which is TRUE in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: part

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				this part		true 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 refuses all bargains

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 refuses	nsubj
3	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bargains	det
5	bargains	bargain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 refuses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	the Cat	all bargains					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme

Option 2

The Dog catches the mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catches	nsubj
3	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	the Dog	the mouse					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 3

The Man makes a Singing Magic with the blade-bone to keep the Cat out of the Cave

The tree, 18 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	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Magic	det
5	Singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Magic	amod
6	Magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 bone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bone	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 blade	punct
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cat	det
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 Cave	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Cave	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cave	det
19	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	the Man	a Singing Magic		with the blade bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
2	sing speech: express	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive	the Man not said here	the Cat	the Cave		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme out cave=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Woman calls the Cat «as clever as a man»

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	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 clever	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 clever	advmod
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calls	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clever	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	the Woman		the Cat			clever property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient

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