Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

Which object was the cat instructed to obtain from the ogre's chamber?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, instruct, obtain · To what, where: cat, chamber

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cat	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 obtain	mark
8	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 instructed	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 chamber	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ogre	det
11	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chamber	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 ogre	case
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 obtain	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	which object	the cat		tree rules
2	instruct speech: other	participle		the cat not said here		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	obtain	to-infinitive			the ogre's chamber	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from chamber=Source

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

A stone with carved marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 marks	case
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 marks	amod
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A stone bearing engraved signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bearing	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bearing	compound
3	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 signs	amod
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bearing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engrave	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A gem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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