Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

Which description most accurately characterises the refuge into which the Mice retreated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description · What happens: characteris, retreat · To what, where: refuge, Mice

This is exam question 3 of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» 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 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 characterises	advmod
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 refuge	det
7	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 Mice	det
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mice	det
11	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 characterises	obj
12	retreated	retreat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Mice	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	the refuge				accurately property	tree rules
2	retreat	participle		which Mice not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing, hidden deep inside the cold stone wall of the house

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 passage	det
2	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrow	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 narrow	advmod
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fit	mark
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fit	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fit	aux
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 narrow	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 squeezing	advmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 squeezing	mark
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fit	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hidden	punct
13	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 narrow	conj
14	deep	deep	ADV	_	13 hidden	advmod
15	inside	inside	ADP	_	19 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wall	amod
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wall	compound
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hidden	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fit	could	two			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	squeeze	gerund	two not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hide	participle		the cold stone wall of the house	deep property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside wall=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 passage	det
2	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrow	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 narrow	advmod
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fit	mark
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fit	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fit	aux
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 narrow	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 squeezing	advmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 squeezing	mark
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	could	two						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	squeeze	gerund	two not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A dark tunnel under the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunnel	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tunnel	amod
3	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tunnel	nmod

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

Option 4

A passage so narrow that two could fit only by squeezing, and it led straight back to the cupboard

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 passage	det
2	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrow	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 narrow	advmod
4	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fit	mark
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fit	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fit	aux
8	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 narrow	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 squeezing	advmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 squeezing	mark
11	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fit	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 led	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 led	nsubj
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 narrow	conj
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	17 back	advmod
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 led	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 cupboard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cupboard	det
20	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fit	could	two		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	squeeze	gerund	two not said here		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	lead	past	passage	to the cupboard	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to cupboard=Patient

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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