Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Specify the number of occasions upon which the Ass deliberately lay down in the stream.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Ass · What happens: specify, lie down · To what, where: number, stream

This is exam question 3 of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 occasions	case
5	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lay	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ass	det
9	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
10	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 occasions	acl:relcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 stream	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the number of occasions					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	lie down	past	the Ass			the stream		upon occasions; deliberately, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon which=Location

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

Two, on the second and third trips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trips	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 trips	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trips	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 trips	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 third	cc
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 second	conj
8	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Two	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two occasions, on the second and third journeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 occasions	nummod
2	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 journeys	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 journeys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 journeys	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 journeys	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 third	cc
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 second	conj
9	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occasions	conj

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

Option 3

Three occasions, once on each of the three journeys to market and back again

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 occasions	nummod
2	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 each	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 each	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 occasions	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 journeys	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 journeys	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 journeys	nummod
10	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 market	mark
12	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 journeys	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 back	cc
14	back	back	ADV	_	10 journeys	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	2 occasions	advmod

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

Option 4

Two occasions, on the second and third journeys, when the donkey was tired

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 occasions	nummod
2	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 journeys	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 journeys	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 journeys	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 journeys	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 third	cc
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 second	conj
9	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 occasions	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tired	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 tired	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 donkey	det
13	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tired	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tired	cop
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 journeys	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the donkey					tired property	tree rules

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