Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

What is the principal moral conveyed by the Plane-tree fable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal moral · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: principal moral

This is exam question 2 of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moral	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moral	amod
5	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 moral	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	12 fable	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fable	det
9	Plane	Plane	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fable	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Plane	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fable	compound
12	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conveyed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal moral						tree rules
2	convey	participle		the principal moral not said here				by the Plane tree fable	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Many services are met with ingratitude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 services	amod
2	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux:pass
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 ingratitude	case
6	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present · passive		Many services				with ingratitude	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with ingratitude=Instrument

Option 2

Many services are met with ingratitude, so never expect thanks from travellers at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 services	amod
2	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux:pass
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 ingratitude	case
6	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expect	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 expect	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 expect	advmod
10	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 met	parataxis
11	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expect	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 travellers	case
13	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 expect	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 expect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present · passive		Many services				with ingratitude	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with ingratitude=Instrument
2	not expect	infinitive		thanks		travellers		at all	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme

Option 3

Be kind to trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 trees	case
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to trees; kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Greed leads to ruin always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leads	nsubj
2	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ruin	mark
4	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leads	xcomp
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 ruin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	Greed						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	ruin	to-infinitive	Greed not said here					always property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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