Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

In what place was the pot of fat deposited for safekeeping?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, deposit · To what, where: pot, place, fat

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 place	dep
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pot	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fat	case
8	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	nmod
9	deposited	deposit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fat	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 safekeeping	case
11	safekeeping	safekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deposited	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the pot		place		of fat	tree rules
2	deposit	participle		fat not said here				for safekeeping	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

hidden deep beneath the wooden altar of the small old church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	deep	deep	ADV	_	1 hidden	advmod
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 altar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 altar	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 altar	amod
6	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hidden	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 church	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 church	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 church	amod
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 altar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the wooden altar of the small old church		deep property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath altar=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

beneath the altar of the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 altar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 altar	det
3	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 altar	nmod

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

Option 3

beneath the altar of the church in the middle of the village square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 altar	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 altar	det
3	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 altar	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 square	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 square	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 square	compound
13	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod

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

Option 4

beneath the bench by the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	3 bench	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bench	det
3	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bench	nmod

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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