Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

Which description is given of the second child in the cat's account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: give, account · To what, where: description, account

This is exam question 2 of lesson 736 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat steals the winter fat, then eats the mouse» 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	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 account	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 account	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 cat	case
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		which description		the cat's account		of the second child	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	account		the cat						nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 white neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a red ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a brown spot on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spot	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spot	amod
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spot	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a white ring round its neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 neck	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	nmod

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

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