Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…
Which of the following did the queen call the cat when she touched her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: follow, call, touch · To what, where: cat, her · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 call | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 queen | case |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 queen | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 touched | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touched | nsubj |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touched | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | call | present | the cat | of the queen | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme cat=Result | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | cat | her = she | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice
Puss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"Putty, putty, come here my pretty cat"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Putty | punct |
| 2 | Putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 putty | punct |
| 4 | putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Putty | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Putty | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cat | amod |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | Putty and putty | my pretty cat | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Putty, putty"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Putty | punct |
| 2 | Putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 putty | punct |
| 4 | putty | putty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Putty | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Putty | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kitty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kitty | Kitty | PROPN | 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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