Exam question 3 · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

Which material was the sausage peg covered with at the moment of the fourth mouse's arrival?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, fourth mouse · What happens: be, cover, arrive · To what, where: sausage peg

This is exam question 3 of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peg	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 peg	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peg	det
5	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 peg	compound
6	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 peg	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 moment	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 arrival	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
14	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 mouse	amod
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arrival	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 mouse	case
17	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moment	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 peg	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	which material	the sausage peg		tree rules
2	cover	participle		the sausage peg not said here	moment	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	arrive		the fourth mouse			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Muslin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muslin	Muslin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Muslin	punct

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

Option 2

Velvet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Velvet	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Crape.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crape	crape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Crape	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crape	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Silk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Silk	punct

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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