Exam question 2 · Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10…

What is the significance of the moon's reflection in the water for the plot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: significance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1144 «Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10: the hungry wolf and the cunning fox plan a feast of cheese, and the fox tricks the wolf into the bucket» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 significance	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 significance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 significance	det
4	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 reflection	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reflection	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 moon	case
9	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 significance	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reflection	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 plot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plot	det
15	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reflection	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 significance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the significance				of the moon's reflection in the water for the plot	tree rules

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

It shows the wolf the way down into the village at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl:unmarked
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	the wolf		the village	night	the way obl:unmarked	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient into village=Recipient

Option 2

It warns the wolf of the coming storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warns	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 storm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 storm	amod
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wolf	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	It	the wolf of the coming storm					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient
2	come	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It shows the fox's hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunger	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fox	case
6	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	the fox's hunger					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hunger=Recipient
2	hunger		the fox						nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It deceives the wolf into believing a cheese lies below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 deceives	nsubj
2	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deceives	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 believing	mark
6	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lies	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cheese	det
8	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believing	obj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 deceives	conj
10	below	below	ADV	_	9 lies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deceive	present	It	the wolf		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient
2	believe	gerund		a cheese		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheese=Stimulus
3	lie	present			below property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1144-pg3027-part10/e2/