Exam question 2 · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

Where did the two cats first encounter one another?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two cats · What happens: do, encounter · To what, where: one

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1612 «Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma run away, but a big dog splits them up» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cats	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cats	nummod
5	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 encounter	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 encounter	advmod
7	encounter	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 encounter	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	fixed
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	encounter	present	the two cats	one				first property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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

Beneath a cherry tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

On a crowded market street at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	5 street	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 street	det
3	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 street	amod
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 street	compound
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 street	nmod

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

Option 3

Beneath the old oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beneath	beneath	ADP	_	4 oak	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oak	amod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

At the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	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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