Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

With reference to the text, which animal was instructed by the cat to remain at a distance while she entered the house?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: instruct, remain, enter · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 instructed	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 animal	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 text	appos
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 instructed	aux:pass
10	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 cat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cat	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 instructed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 remain	mark
15	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 instructed	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 distance	det
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remain	obl
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 entered	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entered	nsubj
21	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remain	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entered	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · passive	the cat		with reference to the text	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remain	to-infinitive			at a distance	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location
3	enter	past	cat	the house		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

the dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rat	rat	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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