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

Ascertain the informant who conveyed to the Cat news of the Baby's birth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, informant · What happens: ascertain, convey · To what, where: informant, Cat news

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 informant	det
3	informant	informant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 conveyed	nsubj
5	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 informant	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 news	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 news	det
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 news	compound
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conveyed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 birth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Baby	det
12	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 birth	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Baby	case
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 news	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the informant					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent informant=Topic
2	convey	past	the informant		the Cat news of the Baby's birth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to news=Recipient

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 Woman who spins in the Cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Woman	det
2	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Woman	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cave	det
7	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spins	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	the Woman			the Cave			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in cave=Trajectory

Option 2

The Horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bat	det
2	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	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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