Exam question 3 · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

What announcement did the cat instruct the reapers to make concerning the corn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: announcement · What happens: instruct, make, concern · To what, where: reapers, corn

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 instruct	obj
2	announcement	announcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruct	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 instruct	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruct	nsubj
6	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reapers	det
8	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 instruct	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 instruct	advcl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 make	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corn	det
13	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	announcement	the reapers	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	announcement not said here		tree rules
3	concern	gerund	announcement not said here	the corn	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus corn=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

That it belonged to the Marquis of Carabas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belonged	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Marquis	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Marquis	det
6	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Carabas	case
8	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Marquis	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	That					to the Marquis of Carabas	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

That the field was owned by Carabas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 field	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 owned	aux:pass
5	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Carabas	case
7	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 owned	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past · passive	Carabas	that field					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme

Option 3

That it belonged to the Marquis of Carabas, the richest lord in all the land

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belonged	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Marquis	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Marquis	det
6	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Carabas	case
8	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Marquis	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lord	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lord	det
11	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 lord	amod
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Marquis	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 land	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 land	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lord	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	That					to the Marquis of Carabas	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That it belonged to the Marquis of Carabas and his noble family for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 belonged	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 belonged	nsubj
3	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Marquis	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Marquis	det
6	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belonged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Carabas	case
8	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Marquis	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 family	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
11	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 family	amod
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Marquis	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 belonged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	That					to the Marquis of Carabas and Carabas's noble family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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