Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Which creature is described as stronger than the Oak in the fable concerning the storm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fable · What happens: describe, concern · To what, where: creature, fable, storm

This is exam question 3 of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 stronger	case
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 described	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Oak	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Oak	det
9	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stronger	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 fable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fable	det
12	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
13	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fable	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 storm	det
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 concerning	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which creature		the fable		as stronger	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as strong=Attribute
2	concern	gerund	the fable not said here	the storm					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus storm=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

The storm itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 storm	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The mighty river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 river	amod
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The mighty flood that rose up over the banks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flood	det
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flood	amod
3	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rose	nsubj
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 rose	compound:prt
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 banks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 banks	det
9	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the mighty flood			the banks			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bank=Location

Option 4

The wind that blew across the whole valley and beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wind	acl:relcl
5	across	across	ADP	_	8 valley	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 valley	amod
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beyond	cc
10	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	4 blew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind			the whole valley			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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