Test 9 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies
A she-cat walks in with kittens. Which word fits the mother best?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she cat, word · What happens: walk in, fit · To what, where: mother
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 21 «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies» of the Ukrainian street 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: A she-cat walks in with kittens.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cat | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 walks | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 kittens | case |
| 8 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walks | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in | present | a she cat | with kittens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: Which word fits the mother best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | obj |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 mother | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | which word | the mother best | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
The options
Option 1
kOnyk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kOnyk | kOnyk | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
kit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
pes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pes | pe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
kIshka
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kIshka | kIshka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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