Exam question 1 · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

Which animal caused the Mice to hide in terror at the mansion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: cause, hide · To what, where: Mice, terror

This is exam question 1 of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mice	det
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hide	mark
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 terror	case
9	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 mansion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mansion	det
12	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which animal	the Mice					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mouse=Patient
2	hide	to-infinitive	which animal not said here			terror		at the mansion	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in terror=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 · ← Mova's choice

A hungry Cat from the stables outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Cat	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Cat	amod
3	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 stables	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stables	det
6	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Cat	nmod
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 stables	advmod

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

Option 2

Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	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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