Exam question 2 · Cats and dogs up close
Identify the toy with which a kitten ought to play.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, kitten · What happens: identify, play · To what, where: toy
This is exam question 2 of lesson 61 «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday 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 toy | det |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 play | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kitten | det |
| 7 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | nsubj |
| 8 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 play | aux |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 toy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the toy | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent toy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | ought | a kitten | the toy not said here | with the toy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with which=Theme |
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
A wand toy rather than a person's fingers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 toy | det |
| 2 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 toy | compound |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 fingers | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 fingers | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 person | case |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 toy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A loose piece of string left unattended
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 string | case |
| 5 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 piece | acl |
| 7 | unattended | unattended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a loose piece of string not said here | unattended property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A small plastic bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bag | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bag | amod |
| 3 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | compound |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A person's bare fingers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 person | case |
| 4 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fingers | amod |
| 5 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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