Exam question 4 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

Into which receptacle did Father Gatto propose to immerse Lizina?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Father · What happens: propose, immerse · To what, where: receptacle, Lizina

This is exam question 4 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	Into	into	ADP	_	3 receptacle	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 receptacle	det
3	receptacle	receptacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Father	aux
5	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
6	Gatto	Gatto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Father	flat
7	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 immerse	mark
9	immerse	immerse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 propose	ccomp
10	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 immerse	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	present	Father			which receptacle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	immerse	to-infinitive	Father not said here		Lizina				vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent lizina=Destination

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

One of the earthenware jars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 jars	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jars	det
4	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jars	compound
5	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod

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

Option 2

One of the wooden barrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 barrels	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barrels	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barrels	amod
5	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod

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

Option 3

One of the big earthenware jars in the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 jars	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jars	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jars	amod
5	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jars	compound
6	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jars	nmod

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

Option 4

The largest earthenware jar, filled with oil and honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jar	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 jar	amod
3	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jar	compound
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 filled	punct
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jar	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 oil	case
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 honey	cc
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oil	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle		the largest earthenware jar not said here				with oil and honey	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with oil=Instrument

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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