Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Real life: which ancient people loved cats so much they made statues of a cat-goddess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ancient people, people · What happens: love, make · To what, where: Real life, statues

This is test 8 · ★★ 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 loved	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loved	obj
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loved	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loved	advcl
13	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 goddess	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 goddess	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 goddess	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 cat	punct
18	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 statues	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	ancient people	Real life					tree rules
2	make	past	people	statues of a cat goddess					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statue=Product

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

The ancient Egyptians

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Egyptians	det
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Egyptians	amod
3	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The Tribe of Tegumai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tribe	det
2	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Tegumai	case
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tribe	nmod

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

Option 3

The Romans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The Vikings, who took cats on their long ships across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vikings	det
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ships	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ships	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ships	amod
10	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Vikings		cats	Vikings's long ships		across the sea	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cat=Destination

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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