Exam question 4 · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Which quality is attributed to cats in the first narrative?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: attribute · To what, where: quality, first narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attributed	aux:pass
4	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attributed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 narrative	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrative	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 narrative	amod
10	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attributed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attributed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · passive		which quality		the first narrative		to cats	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Patience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Great patience and a very clever mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 patience	amod
2	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mind	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mind	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mind	amod
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patience	conj

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

Option 3

Loyalty to the family that kept them warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 family	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loyalty	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Loyalty to the family	them = they				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Courage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Courage	courage	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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