Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

What did the young Lark overhear and communicate to her mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: young Lark · What happens: do, overhear, communicate

This is exam question 4 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	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	5 Lark	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lark	amod
5	Lark	Lark	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 overhear	nsubj
6	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 communicate	cc
8	communicate	communicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 overhear	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 communicate	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	overhear	present	the young Lark		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	communicate	present	the young Lark not said here	to Lark's mother	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Farmer's plan to reap the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Farmer	det
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plan	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Farmer	case
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reap	mark
6	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plan	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reap	to-infinitive		the field					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme
2	plan		the Farmer						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The Wolf's plan to steal a lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plan	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Wolf	case
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 steal	mark
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plan	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamb	det
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	to-infinitive		a lamb					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme
2	plan		the Wolf						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The Farmer's plan to sell cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Farmer	det
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plan	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Farmer	case
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 plan	acl
7	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		cows					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	plan		the Farmer						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

A storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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