Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

State which creature, according to the fable of the Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog, takes middle age.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State creature · What happens: accord, take · To what, where: middle age

This is exam question 4 of lesson 153 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey is carried ashore on a dolphin's back, then lies about his family and drowns.» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	compound
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fable	punct
5	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fable	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fable	det
8	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
11	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fable	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Horse	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Horse	det
14	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ox	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Ox	det
17	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Dog	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Dog	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Dog	det
21	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creature	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 age	amod
25	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	which State creature and the Horse and the Ox and the Dog	middle age					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Ox, whose steady labour characterises that period

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 labour	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 labour	nmod:poss
5	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 labour	amod
6	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ox	conj
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 period	det
9	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	the Ox and the Ox and the Ox's steady labour's steady labour	that period					tree rules

Option 2

The Horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Horse, whose strength carries the rider home at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strength	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 strength	nmod:poss
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Horse	conj
6	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rider	det
8	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	6 carries	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 dusk	case
11	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the Horse and the Horse and the Horse's strength's strength	the rider			dusk	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme

Option 4

The Dog, whose keen nose serves the hunter well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serves	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 serves	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 nose	nmod:poss
5	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nose	amod
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serves	nsubj
7	serves	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunter	det
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serves	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 serves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present	the Dog	the hunter				well property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Attribute

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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