Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Which object is the Blind Man able to identify solely by the sensation of touch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, identify, sense · To what, where: touch

This is exam question 4 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 able	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 able	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Man	det
5	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Man	amod
6	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 able	nsubj
7	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 identify	mark
9	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 able	xcomp
10	solely	solely	ADV	_	9 identify	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 sensation	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sensation	det
13	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 identify	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 touch	case
15	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sensation	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 able	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	which object		able property	tree rules
2	identify	to-infinitive	which object not said here		by the sensation of touch; solely property	vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	sense			touch		nom sensation «cognition transitive»: 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

An animal placed in his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 animal	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	participle		a animal not said here		animal's hands			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination

Option 2

A bird placed in his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	participle		a bird not said here		bird's hands			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination

Option 3

A strange creature that someone placed in his trembling hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 someone	mark
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 creature	appos
6	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 someone	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hands	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
9	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hands	compound
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	participle				his trembling hands			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination

Option 4

An animal that was placed carefully into both of his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 placed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 placed	aux:pass
5	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 animal	acl:relcl
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 placed	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 both	case
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 placed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		a animal		both		carefully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme

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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