Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

Which signal did the Farmer employ to summon the sling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: signal · What happens: do, summon · To what, where: Farmer employ, sling

This is exam question 1 of lesson 151 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 signal	det
2	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 summon	mark
8	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sling	det
10	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 summon	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which signal	the Farmer employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	summon	to-infinitive	which signal not said here	the sling					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Recipient

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

a cough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a sharp "whistle"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whistle	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 whistle	punct
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 whistle	punct

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the word "humph"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 humph	punct
4	humph	humph	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	appos
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 humph	punct

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

Option 4

a whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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