Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Which creature did the Cat feign in order to deceive the Mice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: feign, deceive · To what, where: order, Mice

This is exam question 1 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feign	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feign	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feign	nsubj
6	feign	feign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 order	case
8	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feign	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 deceive	mark
10	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feign	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mice	det
12	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 deceive	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feign	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	past · do-support	which creature			order			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	deceive	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	the Mice					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

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

a dead creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a dead animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a corpse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ghost	det
2	ghost	ghost	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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