Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…
Real life: about when did cats start living near farmers in the Middle East?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cats · What happens: start, live
This is test 7 · ★★ 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 | _ | 8 start | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 start | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 start | mark |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 start | aux |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 start | nsubj |
| 8 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 start | xcomp |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 farmers | case |
| 11 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 living | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 East | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 East | det |
| 14 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 East | compound |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 farmers | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · do-support | cats | about property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | cats not said here | near farmers in the Middle East | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near farmer=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 · ✓ the right answer
About 10,000 years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 10,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
100 years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A million years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 million | det |
| 2 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 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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