Test 7 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

"black cat crossed my path, my test is gonna go terrible" What do you say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black cat, you, my · What happens: cross, be, say, test · To what, where: path · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	nsubj
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cat	acl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 path	nmod:poss
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 test	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 test	nmod:poss
9	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	cop
11	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	12 go	dep
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	xcomp
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	participle	black cat and my test not said here	my path		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	black cat and my test		go, terrible property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	test in a quote		my			nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

You'd better skip the test now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 skip	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 skip	aux
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 skip	advmod
4	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 test	det
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skip	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 skip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	would	You	the test			now	well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's a superstition; some places even say they're lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 superstition	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 superstition	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 superstition	det
4	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 places	det
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 superstition	parataxis
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lucky	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lucky	cop
12	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a superstition		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	some places			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	places = place		lucky property	tree rules

Option 3

Only a white cat can cancel it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 cancel	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cancel	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cancel	aux
6	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cancel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	can	a white cat	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Walk backwards three times round the house to undo the bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walk	obl:unmarked
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 undo	mark
9	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 luck	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luck	amod
12	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undo	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			the house	time	backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory
2	undo	to-infinitive	you not said here	the bad luck					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient

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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