Test 6 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Real life: how did cats come to live with people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats · What happens: come, live

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	cats						tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	cats not said here					with people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location

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

A Woman made a bargain with one Cat in a Cave, and all cats have kept it ever since

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bargain	det
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Cat	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Cat	nummod
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Cave	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Cave	det
11	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 cats	det
15	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kept	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kept	obj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 since	advmod
20	since	since	ADV	_	17 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	a Woman	a bargain		a Cave		with one Cat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
2	keep	present · perfect · passive		all cats				since property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wildcats came for the mice in farmers' grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wildcats	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 mice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 grain	case
7	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grain	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 farmers	case
9	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Wildcats			farmers's grain		for the mice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grain=Location

Option 3

They were caught in nets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 nets	case
5	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		They		nets			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Dogs brought them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Dogs	them = they					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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