Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

Summarise the lesson the text attaches to the story of the Boy and the Filberts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, text · What happens: summarise, attach · To what, where: lesson

This is exam question 4 of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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	Summarise	summarise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Summarise	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attaches	nsubj
6	attaches	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lesson	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attaches	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Boy	det
12	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Filberts	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Filberts	det
15	Filberts	Filbert	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Boy	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Summarise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summarise	imperative	you not said here	the lesson					tree rules
2	attach	present	the text	the lesson not said here				to the story of the Boy and the Filberts	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient to story=Co-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

One should never reach for more than one can hold, and should accept a fair share with patience.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 more	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 reach	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 hold	mark
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hold	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	aux
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 more	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 accept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 accept	cc
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 accept	aux
14	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reach	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 share	det
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 share	amod
17	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 accept	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 patience	case
19	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 share	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not reach	should	One	more		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	hold	can	one			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	accept	should	One not said here	a fair share	with patience	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme

Option 2

Greed brings loss, so take what you can hold.

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	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brings	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hold	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hold	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	aux
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bring	present	Greed	loss	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent loss=Theme
2	take	infinitive	Greed not said here		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	hold	can	you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One should not attempt too much at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attempt	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attempt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 attempt	advmod
4	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 attempt	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 attempt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not attempt	should	One	much					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality

Option 4

Be kind to others.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to others; kind property	tree rules

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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