Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

What did the packet found by the Ass and the Dog concern?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, find · To what, where: packet

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 packet	det
4	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 packet	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Ass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ass	det
8	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 concern	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 concern	det
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 concern	compound
12	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ass	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the packet					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Eventuality
2	find	participle		the packet not said here				by the Ass and the Dog concern	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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

meat and bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bones	cc
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 meat	conj

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

Option 2

seeds for planting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 planting	case
3	planting	planting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seeds	nmod

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

Option 3

fodder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fodder such as grass and hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 grass	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fodder	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hay	cc
6	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grass	conj

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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