Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

In the fable of the Woman and the Farmer, what was the agreed resolution to their shared grief?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fable · What happens: agree, be, share · To what, where: agreed resolution

This is exam question 2 of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 fable	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fable	det
3	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Woman	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woman	det
6	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fable	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Farmer	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Farmer	det
9	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Woman	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 resolution	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 resolution	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 resolution	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 resolution	det
14	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 resolution	amod
15	resolution	resolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fable	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 grief	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grief	nmod:poss
18	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 grief	amod
19	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resolution	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the fable of the Woman and the Farmer and the agreed resolution	the agreed resolution	to Woman's shared grief	tree rules
3	share	participle				tree rules

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

They resolved to marry and live together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resolved	nsubj
2	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 resolved	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 live	cc
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	They		tree rules
2	marry	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	live together	infinitive	They not said here	together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They agreed to part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 part	mark
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agreed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	They	part					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They promised to share the work in the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 share	mark
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	They						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	share not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the work		the fields			tree rules

Option 4

They agreed to split the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 split	mark
4	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agreed	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	They						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	split not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the land					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient

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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