Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Identify the occurrence which caused the Woman to utter a third word in praise of the Cat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, occurrence, Woman · What happens: identify, cause, utter, praise · To what, where: occurrence, Woman, third word, praise, Cat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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 occurrence	det
3	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 caused	nsubj
5	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurrence	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woman	det
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 utter	mark
9	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 caused	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 utter	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 praise	case
14	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Cat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 praise	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the occurrence		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occurrence=Theme
2	cause	past	the occurrence	the Woman		tree rules
3	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	the Woman not said here	a third word	praise of the Cat	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	praise			the Cat		nom praise «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 · ✓ the right answer

The swift capture of a mouse which had alarmed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 capture	det
2	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capture	amod
3	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 alarmed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 capture	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 alarmed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alarmed	aux
9	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alarmed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · perfect · passive		the swift capture of a mouse					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result
2	capture			a mouse					nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The Cat's singing to the Baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Cat	case
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Baby	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Baby	det
7	Baby	Baby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			the Baby				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to baby=Recipient

Option 3

The Cat's playing with the spindle whorl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Cat	case
4	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 whorl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whorl	det
7	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whorl	compound
8	whorl	whorl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund						with the spindle whorl	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with whorl=Theme

Option 4

The Bat's report

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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 report	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Bat	case
4	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report		the Bat						nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/e1/