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Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Mason from Toronto: «dogs and cats always fight, eh?» (eh = right?) What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mason · What happens: fight, be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Mason from Toronto: «dogs and cats always fight, eh?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	mason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fight	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Toronto	case
3	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mason	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 dogs	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 dogs	punct
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fight	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cats	cc
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dogs	conj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 fight	advmod
10	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	10 fight	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 fight	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	present	Mason from Toronto					always property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: (eh = right?)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct
2	eh	eh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	=	=	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
4	right	right	INTJ	_	2 eh	discourse
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 eh	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Sundays	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Sundays	case
3	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, always and everywhere, because of the old bargain in the Cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 always	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 always	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 everywhere	cc
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 always	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bargain	punct
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 bargain	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bargain	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bargain	amod
11	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 always	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 Cave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cave	det
14	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bargain	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No: many are good friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 friends	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 friends	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 friends	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		no many good friends					tree rules

Option 4

Only big dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dogs	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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