Exam question 3 · Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, p…
Which portion did the jackal allocate to the lion for his evening meal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: portion · What happens: allocate · To what, where: lion
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1164 «Jackal Tales, The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son, part 30: the jackal cheats the hyena, the lion, and the hedgehog» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 portion | det |
| 2 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allocate | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 allocate | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jackal | det |
| 5 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allocate | nsubj |
| 6 | allocate | allocate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allocate | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 meal | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 meal | nmod:poss |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meal | compound |
| 13 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allocate | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 allocate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allocate | past · do-support | which portion | the lion | for jackal's evening meal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to lion=Goal |
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 fattest ram and the youngest kid of the flock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ram | det |
| 2 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 ram | amod |
| 3 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kid | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 kid | amod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ram | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 flock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flock | det |
| 10 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kid | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheep | det |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The little lamb with the white ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lamb | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lamb | amod |
| 3 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ears | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ears | amod |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lamb | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The lamb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lamb | det |
| 2 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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