Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

What did the Hedgehog propose to the Fox regarding the horseflies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hedgehog · What happens: propose, regard · To what, where: Fox

This is exam question 1 of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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	5 propose	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 propose	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hedgehog	det
4	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 propose	nsubj
5	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Fox	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fox	det
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 propose	obl
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 horseflies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horseflies	det
11	horseflies	horsefly	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Fox	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the Hedgehog		the Fox regard the horseflies				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to fox=Recipient
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

To drive the flies away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drive	mark
2	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flies	det
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive away	to-infinitive		the flies				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 2

To catch the flies quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flies	det
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catch	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		the flies				quickly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 3

To trap them in a jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trap	mark
2	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trap	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 jar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jar	det
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	to-infinitive		them = they		a jar			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in jar=Destination

Option 4

To kill the flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flies	det
4	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		the flies					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

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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