Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

What quantity of foodstuff did the Soldier provide his Horse during the period of peace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: provide · To what, where: Horse

This is exam question 3 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 provide	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 foodstuff	case
4	foodstuff	foodstuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 provide	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Soldier	det
7	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 provide	nsubj
8	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Horse	nmod:poss
10	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 provide	obj
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 period	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 period	det
13	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 provide	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 peace	case
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 period	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 provide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide	past · do-support	what quantity of foodstuff	Soldier's Horse			during the period of peace		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition horse=Theme

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

Some barley and bran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 barley	det
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bran	cc
4	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barley	conj

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

Option 2

Nothing but chaff, plus a few handfuls of grass every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 chaff	cc
3	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 handfuls	punct
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 handfuls	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 handfuls	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 handfuls	amod
8	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 grass	case
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handfuls	nmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handfuls	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

A plentiful supply of oats during peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 supply	det
2	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 supply	amod
3	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 oats	case
5	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 supply	nmod
6	during	during	ADP	_	7 peace	case
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 supply	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing but chaff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 chaff	cc
3	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

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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