Exam question 2 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Which domestic animal did Lizina undertake to serve in the course of the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: domestic animal · What happens: undertake, serve

This is exam question 2 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 undertake	aux
5	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
6	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 serve	mark
8	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 undertake	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 course	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 serve	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 narrative	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 course	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	which domestic animal						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	serve	to-infinitive	which domestic animal not said here					in the course of the narrative	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in course=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 · ✓ the right answer

The cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cats	det
2	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hen	Hen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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