Exam question 1 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

Select the response that correctly enumerates the nouns contained in the sentence "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, cat · What happens: select, enumerate, contain, sit · To what, where: response, nouns, sentence, mat

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 enumerates	nsubj
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	6 enumerates	advmod
6	enumerates	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 response	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nouns	det
8	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enumerates	obj
9	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 nouns	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sentence	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sentence	det
12	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contained	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sentence	acl:relcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 mat	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mat	det
19	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	enumerate	present	the response	the nouns		correctly property	tree rules
3	contain	participle		the nouns not said here	the sentence		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sentence=Location
4	sit in a quote	past	the cat	the sentence not said here	the mat	in the kitchen	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme on mat=Location

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

cat, mat and kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mat	punct
3	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cat	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kitchen	cc
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cat	conj

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

Option 2

cat, sat and in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 cat	punct
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 in	cc
5	in	in	ADP	_	3 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	cat						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the, sat and on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sat	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

mat, on and the

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mat	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 mat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 mat	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	1 mat	det

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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