Exam question 4 · Pink Fairy Book, The Cat's Elopement, part 1: Gon and Koma…

In what manner did the cats depart from their owners' households?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cats · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: manner, households

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	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	6 cats	det
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 depart	nsubj
7	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 households	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 owners	nmod:poss
10	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 households	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 owners	case
12	households	household	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 depart	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				what manner			tree rules
2	depart	present	the cats			cats's owners's households			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from household=Initial_Location

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

They crept out one stormy night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
5	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	past	They				night	out property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They crept out of the house and ran off across the fields at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 house	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 fields	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep out	past	They	the house					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location house=Theme
2	run off	past	They not said here			the fields	dawn		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They quietly slipped away from their homes one bright moonlit night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slipped	nsubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
3	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 slipped	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 homes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homes	nmod:poss
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slipped	obl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 night	nummod
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
10	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slipped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip away	past	They				night	from their homes; away, quietly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from home=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They stole away one moonlight night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 night	compound
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal away	past	They				night	away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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