Exam question 1 · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

Which of the following was bequeathed by the miller to his youngest son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller · What happens: follow, bequeath · To what, where: the

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1083 «Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks the King with game, a river rescue and a fine suit, then reaches the Ogre's castle» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bequeathed	obj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 bequeathed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bequeathed	nsubj:pass
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 the	acl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bequeathed	aux:pass
6	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 miller	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bequeathed	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 son	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bequeathed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bequeathed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bequeath	past · passive	the miller	the				to his youngest son	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal which=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mill	det
2	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mill	det
2	mill	mill	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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