Exam question 4 · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…
Which household animal entered the dining room after the servants had departed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: household animal · What happens: enter, depart · To what, where: dining room, servants
This is exam question 4 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 | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animal | compound |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | compound |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 departed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 servants | det |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 departed | aux |
| 12 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entered | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | which household animal | the dining room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | depart | past · perfect · passive | the servants | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_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 · ✓ the right answer
The House Dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dog | det |
| 2 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | compound |
| 3 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Farm Dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dog | det |
| 2 | Farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dog | compound |
| 3 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A big Hound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Hound | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hound | amod |
| 3 | Hound | hound | 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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