Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Cat…

Which substance did Catherine employ to lubricate the ruts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: employ, lubricate · To what, where: ruts

This is exam question 2 of lesson 107 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, part 10: Catherine loses the sausage and the beer, then wastes the butter and cheese on the road to find the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employ	aux
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
5	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lubricate	mark
7	lubricate	lubricate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employ	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ruts	det
9	ruts	rut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lubricate	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which substance						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	lubricate	to-infinitive	which substance not said here	the ruts					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent rut=Destination

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

goose fat from the kitchen pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fat	compound
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 pot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	compound
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fat	nmod

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

Option 2

oil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

butter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fat	fat	NOUN	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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