Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership: the cat…

What was the mouse's conclusion regarding the cat's conduct?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: conclusion, mouse, cat · What happens: be, regard, conclude, conduct

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conclusion	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 conduct	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conduct	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 cat	case
11	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conclusion	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the mouse's conclusion regard the cat's conduct		tree rules
2	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	conclude		the mouse	regard the cat's conduct	nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent regard=obl
4	conduct		the cat		nom conduct «act 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

she had devoured all the fat and then blamed the poor mouse for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devoured	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 devoured	aux
3	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fat	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fat	det
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoured	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blamed	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blamed	advmod
9	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 devoured	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouse	amod
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blamed	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	past · perfect · passive		she					tree rules
2	blame	past		the poor mouse			then	for mouse	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme for it=Attribute

Option 2

that the cat had secretly devoured every drop of the fat while the mouse slept

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 devoured	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devoured	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 devoured	aux
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	6 devoured	advmod
6	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 drop	det
8	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devoured	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fat	det
11	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drop	nmod
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 slept	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slept	nsubj
15	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 devoured	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	past · perfect	the cat	every drop of the fat				secretly property	vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
2	sleep	past	the mouse						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she had devoured all the fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 devoured	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 devoured	aux
3	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fat	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fat	det
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 devoured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	devour	past · perfect · passive		she					tree rules

Option 4

she had hidden all the fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hidden	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fat	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fat	det
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect	she	all fat					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient

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