Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Puss in Boots, part 8: the Cat tricks th…

Which creature did the Ogre undertake to become, according to the cat's inquiry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, cat · What happens: undertake, become, accord, inquire · To what, where: inquiry

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 undertake	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ogre	det
5	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
6	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 become	mark
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 undertake	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 according	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 undertake	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 inquiry	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 inquiry	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 cat	case
15	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 according	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	which creature		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	become	to-infinitive	which creature not said here		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	accord	gerund	which creature not said here	to the cat's inquiry goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to inquiry=Goal
4	inquire		the cat		nom inquiry «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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 2

Bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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