Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

What was the eventual outcome of the contest conducted between the two competitors?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: eventual outcome, contest, two competitors

This is exam question 2 of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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	5 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	eventual	eventual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 contest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contest	det
8	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
9	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 contest	acl
10	between	between	ADP	_	13 competitors	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 competitors	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 competitors	nummod
13	competitors	competitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 conducted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the eventual outcome				of the contest	tree rules
2	conduct	participle		the contest not said here		the two competitors			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between competitor=Destination

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

The Hare won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the Hare						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Tortoise was declared the winner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux:pass
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winner	det
6	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		the Tortoise					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme winner=Attribute

Option 3

The Tortoise was named the victor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 victor	det
6	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the Tortoise					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme victor=Attribute

Option 4

The Hare was declared the winner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	aux:pass
4	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winner	det
6	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · passive		the Hare					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme winner=Attribute

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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