Exam question 4 · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

What was the outcome of the cow's refusal to heed the boy's counsel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cow · What happens: be, heed, refuse · To what, where: outcome, counsel

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 refusal	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 refusal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 cow	case
9	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 heed	mark
11	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 outcome	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 counsel	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 boy	case
15	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heed	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome	of the cow's refusal	tree rules
2	heed	to-infinitive		the boy's counsel		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	refuse		the cow			nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 miller caught the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the miller	the cow					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the boy's words proved true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 proved	nsubj
5	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	the boy's words					true property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	word		the boy						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the cow was dragged home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	aux:pass
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past · passive		the cow				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

the cow was caught in the trap and the boy's words proved true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 trap	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trap	det
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 proved	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 boy	case
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 proved	nsubj
13	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 proved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		the cow	the trap		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	prove	past	the boy's words			true property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	word		the boy				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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