Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Which trick did the cat employ to ensnare the young rabbit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: trick · What happens: employ, ensnare · To what, where: young rabbit

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ensnare	mark
8	ensnare	ensnare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rabbit	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rabbit	amod
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ensnare	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which trick						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	ensnare	to-infinitive	which trick not said here	the young rabbit					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient

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

He feigned death and awaited the rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feigned	nsubj
2	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigned	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 awaited	cc
5	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 feigned	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 awaited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	past	He	death					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	await	past	He not said here	the rabbit					tree rules

Option 2

He feigned death in the grass and awaited the rabbit's arrival

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feigned	nsubj
2	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigned	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 awaited	cc
8	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 feigned	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rabbit	det
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrival	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 rabbit	case
12	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awaited	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feign	past	He	death	the grass	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
2	await	past	He not said here	the rabbit's arrival		tree rules
3	arrive		the rabbit			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He faked a fall and watched closely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 faked	nsubj
2	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fall	det
4	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 watched	cc
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 faked	conj
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	6 watched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	He	a fall					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient
2	watch	past	He not said here					closely property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He pretended sleep and waited quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pretended	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waited	cc
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pretended	conj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 waited	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He	sleep					tree rules
2	wait	past	He not said here					quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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