Exam question 2 · The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnershi…

In what location did the Cat advise that the pot of fat be deposited for safekeeping?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location · What happens: do, deposit · To what, where: Cat advise, pot

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1677 «The Yellow Fairy Book, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership, part 1: the cat and mouse hide a pot of fat in the church, and the cat secretly eats it» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 advise	det
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advise	compound
7	advise	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 deposited	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pot	det
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deposited	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 fat	case
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pot	nmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 deposited	aux:pass
14	deposited	deposit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 safekeeping	case
16	safekeeping	safekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deposited	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	location	the Cat advise					tree rules
2	deposit	infinitive · passive		the pot of fat				for safekeeping	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

By the north door wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
3	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In the church, in a corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 church	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 church	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 church	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 church	nmod

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

Option 3

In the belfry of the church, high up beside the bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 belfry	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 belfry	det
3	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belfry	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 belfry	amod
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 bells	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bells	det
12	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Inside the church, hidden in a dusty corner of the vestry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 church	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 church	det
3	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hidden	punct
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 church	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 corner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corner	det
8	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 corner	amod
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vestry	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vestry	det
12	vestry	vestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 corner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		the church not said here		a dusty corner of the vestry			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

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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