--- title: After the cock's assault at the street door, where did the captain s… — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad… · tree and pragmatics description: After the cock's assault at the street door, where did the captain stagger? Exam question 2 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2002-pg7885-part21/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrad…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2002-pg7885-part21/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani… After the cock's assault at the street door, where did the captain stagger? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** do, assault · **To what, where:** captain stagger, street door This is exam question 2 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2002-pg7885-part21/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e2:1 # text = After the cock's assault at the street door, where did the captain stagger? 1 After after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 assault assault NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 stagger stagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the captain stagger | | | after the cock's assault at the street door | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stagger=Eventuality | | 2 | **assault** | | the cock | | | the street door | | | nom assault «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} into the house ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e2:o1:1 # text = into the house 1 into into ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} into the dark stable at the back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e2:o2:1 # text = into the dark stable at the back 1 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} into the stable ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e2:o3:1 # text = into the stable 1 into into ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} back into the stable and out again ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2002-pg7885-part21:e2:o4:1 # text = back into the stable and out again 1 back back ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 1 conj _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` 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. 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