Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…
What principle is set forth as the moral of the tale of the Farmer and Fortune?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Farmer · What happens: set, tell · To what, where: principle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 principle | det |
| 2 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 moral | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moral | det |
| 8 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tale | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moral | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Farmer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Farmer | det |
| 14 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tale | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Fortune | cc |
| 16 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Farmer | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · passive | what principle | as the moral of the tale of the Farmer and Fortune; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell | the Farmer and Fortune | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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
Honesty is the best policy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 policy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 policy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 policy | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 policy | amod |
| 5 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Honesty | the best policy | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Gratitude should be shown where gratitude is due
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shown | aux:pass |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 due | advmod |
| 6 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 due | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 due | cop |
| 8 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 shown | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | should · passive | Gratitude | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | gratitude | due property | tree rules |
Option 3
Greed brings only sorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 sorrow | advmod |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Greed | sorrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
Option 4
Those who forget the gods who helped them will be punished by Fortune in the end
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gods | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 punished | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 punished | aux:pass |
| 11 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Fortune | case |
| 13 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punished | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | the gods | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help | past | the gods | gods = god | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | punish | future · passive | Fortune | Those | in the end | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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