Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Ascertain the designation conferred upon Wild Horse following his acceptance of the halter.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Wild Horse, Horse · What happens: ascertain, confer, follow, accept · To what, where: designation, acceptance, halter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Horse	case
6	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Horse	amod
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 conferred	obl:agent
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Horse	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 acceptance	nmod:poss
10	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 halter	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 halter	det
13	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acceptance	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the designation	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent designation=Topic
2	confer	participle		the designation not said here	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	gerund	Wild Horse not said here	Horse's acceptance of the halter	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acceptance=Theme
4	accept		Horse	the halter	nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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

The First Servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Servant	det
2	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Servant	amod
3	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The First Servant who wears the halter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Servant	det
2	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Servant	amod
3	Servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wears	nsubj
5	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Servant	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 halter	det
7	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	the First Servant	the halter					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent halter=Theme

Option 3

The First Rider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rider	det
2	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 Rider	amod
3	Rider	Rider	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Wild Runner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Runner	det
2	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	3 Runner	flat
3	Runner	Runner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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