Exam question 1 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

Which of the following did Catherine attach to the door before she carried it away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: follow, attach, carry away · To what, where: door

This is exam question 1 of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 attach	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 Catherine	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Catherine	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Catherine	amod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Catherine	aux
6	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 attach	obl
7	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attach	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 attach	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 carried	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 attach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attach	infinitive			of the following Catherine; to the door	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to door=Co-Patient
3	carry away	past	she	door	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 cheese and the butter pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cheese	det
2	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pot	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	compound
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheese	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the nuts and the vinegar bottle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nuts	det
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bottle	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
5	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bottle	compound
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nuts	conj

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

Option 3

the nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the bread and the wine jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 jug	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jug	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jug	compound
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bread	conj

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

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