Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

Which phrase in the text indicates the Fox's own assessment of the fruit at the close of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phrase, Fox · What happens: indicate, assess · To what, where: own assessment, fruit

This is exam question 3 of lesson 133 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps for grapes he cannot reach and walks off, calling them sour» 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 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 phrase	nmod
6	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fox	det
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assessment	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Fox	case
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 assessment	amod
11	assessment	assessment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 fruit	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fruit	det
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assessment	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 close	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 close	det
17	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fruit	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tale	det
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 close	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 indicates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	which phrase in the text	the Fox's own assessment of the fruit at the close of the tale					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot assessment=Topic
2	assess		the Fox	the fruit at the close of the tale					nom assessment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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 right answer

"quite sour"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sour	punct
2	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	3 sour	det:predet
3	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sour	punct

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

Option 2

"very ripe fruit"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fruit	punct
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 ripe	advmod
3	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fruit	amod
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fruit	punct

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

Option 3

"sour"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sour	punct
2	sour	sour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sour	punct

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

Option 4

"too sweet"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sweet	punct
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 sweet	advmod
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sweet	punct

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

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