Exam question 1 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

By what means did Catherine come to cut off half of her clothing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Catherine · What happens: mean, come, cut off · To what, where: half

This is exam question 1 of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 cut	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 clothing	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 clothing	nmod:poss
13	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · do-support	Catherine		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Location
3	cut off	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here	half of Catherine's clothing	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector half=Eventuality

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

By accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 accident	case
2	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By sleeping over her meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 sleeping	mark
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 meal	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 meal	nmod:poss
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				her meal			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Through working all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	SCONJ	_	2 working	mark
2	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 working	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund					day	long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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