Exam question 4 · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

What sentiment moved Miss Alice to succour the poor boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentiment · What happens: move, succour · To what, where: Miss, poor boy

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentiment	det
2	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obj
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Miss	flat
6	to	to	PART	_	7 succour	mark
7	succour	succour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moved	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 succour	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 moved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	what sentiment	Miss					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme miss=Result
2	succour	to-infinitive	what sentiment not said here	the poor boy					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Compassion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A sudden wish to scold the cook for her cruelty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wish	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wish	amod
3	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 scold	mark
5	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scold	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cruelty	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cruelty	nmod:poss
10	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	to-infinitive		the cook				for her cruelty	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cook=Theme for cruelty=Attribute

Option 3

Curiosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A desire to be the hero of the household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desire	det
2	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 hero	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hero	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hero	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desire	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 household	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 household	det
9	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hero	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		the hero				of the household	tree rules

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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