Test 7 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Which poem is an acrostic for CAT?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poem · What happens: be · To what, where: acrostic

This is test 7 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acrostic	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 acrostic	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 acrostic	det
5	acrostic	acrostic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 CAT	case
7	CAT	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acrostic	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 acrostic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which poem	a acrostic				for CAT	tree rules

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

Cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat

The tree, 9 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cat	punct
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cat	punct
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	compound
6	/	/	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cat	punct
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cat	punct
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cat	compound
12	/	/	PUNCT	_	11 cat	punct
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cat	punct
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cat	punct
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cat	conj

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

Option 2

My cat is cool / And very fun / She is grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cat	nmod:poss
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	cop
4	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	/	/	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
6	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 fun	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 fun	advmod
8	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cool	conj
9	/	/	PUNCT	_	12 grey	punct
10	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grey	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grey	cop
12	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cool	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	My cat	cool property	tree rules
2	be		My cat not said here		tree rules
3	is	present	cat	grey property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Curled up / Asleep in the sun / Tail twitching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Curled	compound:prt
3	/	/	SYM	_	4 Asleep	cc
4	Asleep	Asleep	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Curled	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Curled	obl
8	/	/	PUNCT	_	10 twitching	punct
9	Tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twitching	compound
10	twitching	twitching	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	participle				the sun and Tail twitching			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A cat sat / on a mat / and that is that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	/	/	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 mat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mat	det
7	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	/	/	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 that	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 that	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a cat			a mat			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location
2	is a	present	that	that					tree rules

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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