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

To whom did the Rooks direct their warning concerning men?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rooks · What happens: direct, warn · To what, where: warning

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 direct	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rooks	det
5	Rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 direct	nsubj
6	direct	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 warning	nmod:poss
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 direct	obj
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 direct	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	direct	past · do-support	the Rooks	Rooks's warning					tree rules
2	warn		Rooks = rook						nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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

to the passing cranes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 cranes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cranes	det
3	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cranes	compound
4	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

to the passing cranes flying overhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 passing	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passing	det
3	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cranes	obl
4	cranes	crane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cranes	xcomp
6	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crane	present						to the passing	tree rules
2	fly	gerund		overhead					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location overhead=Theme

Option 3

to the farmer's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	5 wife	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

to the ducks and the geese at the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 ducks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 geese	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ducks	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ducks	nmod

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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