Test 13 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

was she pretty much the last one to show up for the prize?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be, show up · To what, where: last one

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 show	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 prize	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prize	det
13	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the last one					tree rules
2	show up	to-infinitive						for the prize	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

yep, she was second in the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	8 line	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 line	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 line	cop
5	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 line	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			the line		second property	tree rules

Option 2

nope, she came in the third place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	she			the third place			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, she was the fourth, not the third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 fourth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fourth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fourth	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fourth	det
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 third	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 third	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 third	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 fourth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					fourth property	tree rules
2	not be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep, she was the fourth, not the third, after the cat had already won

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 fourth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fourth	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fourth	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fourth	det
6	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 third	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 third	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 third	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 fourth	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 won	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 won	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 won	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 won	aux
16	already	already	ADV	_	17 won	advmod
17	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fourth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	fourth property	tree rules
2	not be		she not said here		tree rules
3	win	past · perfect	the cat		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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