Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

What did the Satyr conclude regarding the Man's conduct in respect of his hands and his porridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Satyr, Man · What happens: do, conclude, regard, conduct, respect · To what, where: respect, hands

This is exam question 4 of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Satyr	det
4	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 conclude	nsubj
5	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 conduct	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
8	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Man	case
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conclude	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 respect	case
12	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 respect	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 porridge	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 porridge	nmod:poss
18	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hands	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past					tree rules
2	conclude	present	the Satyr			regard the Man's conduct in respect of Satyr's hands and Satyr's porridge	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	regard	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	conduct		the Man		respect of Satyr's hands and Satyr's porridge		nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place
5	respect			Satyr's hands and Satyr's porridge			nom respect «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

That the Man was contradictory, using one breath for two opposite ends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Man	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 contradictory	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 contradictory	cop
5	contradictory	contradictory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 using	punct
7	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 contradictory	acl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 breath	nummod
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 ends	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ends	nummod
12	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ends	amod
13	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that Man	contradictory					tree rules
2	use	gerund	contradictory not said here	one breath			for two opposite ends		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for end=Eventuality

Option 2

That the Man was odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Man	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 odd	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 odd	cop
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Man					odd property	tree rules

Option 3

That the Man was unreliable, blowing one breath for opposite uses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Man	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unreliable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unreliable	cop
5	unreliable	unreliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blowing	punct
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 uses	csubj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 breath	nummod
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blowing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 opposite	case
11	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blowing	obl
12	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unreliable	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Man		unreliable property	tree rules
2	blow	gerund		one breath	for opposite	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent breath=Product for opposite=Beneficiary
3	use	present	blowing			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That the Man was inconsistent, employing one breath for opposite purposes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Man	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inconsistent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 inconsistent	cop
5	inconsistent	inconsistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 employing	punct
7	employing	employ	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 inconsistent	advcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 breath	nummod
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employing	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 purposes	case
11	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 purposes	amod
12	purposes	purpose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 employing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that Man					inconsistent property	tree rules
2	employ	gerund	that Man not said here	one breath				for opposite purposes	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for purpose=Eventuality

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