Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

By what stratagem did the cat secure the first rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stratagem, you · What happens: do, secure · To what, where: cat, first rabbit

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 secure	obl
3	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	secure	secure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rabbit	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 rabbit	amod
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secure	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 secure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	stratagem	the cat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
2	secure	imperative	you not said here	the first rabbit					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rabbit=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

By playing dead in the sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 playing	mark
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 playing	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund				the sack		dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By feigning death within the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 feigning	mark
2	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	gerund		death				within the bag	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient

Option 3

By feigning death within the bag and waiting very still for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 feigning	mark
2	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waiting	cc
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 feigning	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 waiting	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 hours	case
12	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	gerund		death				within the bag	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	wait	gerund					still; hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

By feigning death within the bag, after first tricking the miller's family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 feigning	mark
2	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 bag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigning	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricking	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 tricking	mark
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 tricking	advmod
10	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 feigning	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 miller	det
12	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 family	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 miller	case
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	gerund		death				within the bag	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	trick	gerund		the miller's family				first property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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