Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits…

Which title did the departing cat claim upon learning of the death of Tim Toldrum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: title, Tim · What happens: do, die · To what, where: departing cat claim

This is exam question 4 of lesson 258 «English Fairy Tales, Rushen Coatie: the glass slipper fits the girl in the rushen coatie» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 title	det
2	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claim	det
5	departing	departing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	compound
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	compound
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 learning	case
9	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 death	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learning	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Tim	case
14	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod
15	Toldrum	Toldrum	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Tim	flat
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which title	the departing cat claim				upon learning of the death of Tim	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality
2	die		Tim						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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

Prince of Mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Mice	case
3	Mice	Mice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	nmod

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

Option 2

Lord Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cat	compound
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Cat King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cat	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

King o' the Cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 Cats	case
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 Cats	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cats	det
5	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 King	nmod

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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