Test 2 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…
so she knocked over the sausage peg, that crape thing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: knock · To what, where: sausage peg
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 peg | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peg | det |
| 6 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peg | compound |
| 7 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knocked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | compound |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peg | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | she | the sausage peg and that crape thing | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over peg=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
yep, the one covered in black velvet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 velvet | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 velvet | amod |
| 8 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | the one not said here | in black velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in velvet=Theme |
Option 2
yep, that one, the crape thing wrapped in black mourning cloth for the funeral
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | compound |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 9 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thing | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 12 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloth | compound |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 funeral | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 funeral | det |
| 16 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | the crape thing not said here | black mourning cloth | for the funeral | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
Option 3
yep, the one wrapped in black mourning cloth and tied at the top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloth | amod |
| 8 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloth | compound |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tied | cc |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrapped | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | the one not said here | black mourning cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle | the top | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yep, the one wrapped in black mourning cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloth | amod |
| 8 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloth | compound |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | the one not said here | black mourning cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=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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