Exam question 4 · pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steal…

In which direction did the wild cat travel after losing the golden ball?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild cat travel · What happens: do, lose · To what, where: wild cat travel, direction, golden ball

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1246 «pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steals the golden ball, and the old cat sees a copy of it» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 direction	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 travel	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 travel	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travel	compound
8	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 losing	mark
10	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 travel	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 losing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wild cat travel		which direction			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent travel=Eventuality
2	lose	gerund	the wild cat travel not said here	the golden ball					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Eventuality

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

North

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Across the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Across	across	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Towards the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towards	towards	ADP	_	3 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Towards the north, toward the cold and distant mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Towards	towards	ADP	_	3 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 north	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mountains	cc
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mountains	amod
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 north	conj

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

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