Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

Identify the figure in the tale who, having been given shelter, repaid the kindness of the Farmer with a fatal bite.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, tale · What happens: identify, give, be, repay · To what, where: figure, tale, given shelter, kindness

This is exam question 2 of lesson 146 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight short animal tales about greed, pride, and bad company» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tale	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 repaid	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shelter	punct
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shelter	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 shelter	cop
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shelter	amod
12	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 repaid	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shelter	punct
14	repaid	repay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tale	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kindness	det
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 repaid	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Farmer	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Farmer	det
19	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 kindness	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 bite	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bite	det
22	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bite	amod
23	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 repaid	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the figure	the tale		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	gerund · perfect		given shelter			tree rules
4	repay	past	the tale	the kindness of the Farmer		with a fatal bite	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient with bite=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Viper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Viper	det
2	Viper	Viper	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Farmer

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	root	root

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

Option 3

The Wolf

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	root	root

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

Option 4

A Snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Snake	det
2	Snake	snake	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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