Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

To which animal did the Fox offer a morsel he had discovered in a trap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: do, offer, discover · To what, where: morsel, trap

This is exam question 1 of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 animal	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	nsubj
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 morsel	det
9	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 discovered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 discovered	aux
12	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 morsel	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 trap	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trap	det
15	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 discovered	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				to which animal	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	infinitive	the Fox	a morsel			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme
3	discover	past · perfect	Fox	a morsel not said here	a trap		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Topic

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 Cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cock	det
2	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Ass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ass	det
2	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Monkey	det
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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