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title: Select the response that correctly enumerates the nouns contained in… — Nouns: the names of things, people, pl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response that correctly enumerates the nouns contained in the sentence "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen". Exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 1 · Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e1:1
# text = Select the response that correctly enumerates the nouns contained in the sentence "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen".
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enumerates	enumerate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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cat, mat and kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e1:o1:1
# text = cat, mat and kitchen
1	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cat, sat and in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e1:o2:1
# text = cat, sat and in
1	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the, sat and on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e1:o3:1
# text = the, sat and on
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
mat, on and the

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas:e1:o4:1
# text = mat, on and the
1	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	1	det	_	_
```

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

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**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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