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

Identify the terms of the bargain concluded between the Woman and the Cat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, terms · What happens: identify, conclude, term · To what, where: bargain

This is exam question 1 of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 terms	det
3	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 concluded	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bargain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bargain	det
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 terms	nmod
7	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 Woman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woman	det
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concluded	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Cat	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cat	det
13	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Woman	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	conclude	past	the terms of the bargain		between the Woman and the Cat	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	term			the bargain		nom term «communication transitive»: 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

One word for the fire, two for the milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 word	nummod
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fire	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 milk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 milk	det
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod

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

Option 2

Two for the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Two	nmod

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

Option 3

One for the Cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 Cave	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cave	det
4	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One word of praise for the Cave, two for the fire, three for the milk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 word	nummod
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 praise	case
4	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cave	det
7	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 two	punct
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Cave	appos
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 two	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 three	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 two	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 milk	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 milk	det
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 three	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word			praise				for the Cave	nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient for=obl

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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