Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…

What is the consequence for the Eagle and the Sow in the tale of the Cat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cat · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: consequence, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 144 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful Ass, a robbed Prophet, and other clever beasts» 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	4 consequence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Eagle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Eagle	det
7	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Sow	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sow	det
10	Sow	Sow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Eagle	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Cat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Cat	det
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tale	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the consequence		the tale of the Cat		for the Eagle and the Sow	tree rules
2	tell		the Cat						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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

Both perish of hunger in their homes, while the Cat feasts on what they lost

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 perish	advmod
2	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hunger	case
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perish	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 homes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homes	nmod:poss
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 perish	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feasts	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 feasts	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feasts	nsubj
12	feasts	feast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 perish	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 feasts	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lost	nsubj
16	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	perish	present		their homes	of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
2	feast	present	the Cat			vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on what=Patient
3	lose	past	homes = home			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Both perish of hunger in their homes, while the Cat grows fat on their stolen food and their misfortune

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 perish	advmod
2	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hunger	case
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perish	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 homes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homes	nmod:poss
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 perish	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grows	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 grows	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 perish	parataxis
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 food	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 food	nmod:poss
16	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 misfortune	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 misfortune	nmod:poss
20	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perish	present			their homes	of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
2	grow	present	the Cat	fat	homes's stolen food and food's misfortune		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme
3	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both perish of hunger in their homes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 perish	advmod
2	perish	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hunger	case
4	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perish	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 homes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 homes	nmod:poss
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 perish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	present				their homes		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

Option 4

Both die in their nests at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 die	nsubj
2	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 nests	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nests	nmod:poss
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 die	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	Both				dawn	in their nests	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in nest=Attribute

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