Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

To whom did Jupiter ultimately assign the tears shed for the departed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tears · What happens: assign, shed, depart

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 assign	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assign	aux
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	6 assign	advmod
6	assign	assign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tears	det
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shed	nsubj
9	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 departed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 departed	det
12	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 shed	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 shed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	assign	past · do-support	the tears not said here	ultimately property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to whom=Goal
2	shed	past	the tears		tree rules
3	depart	participle	the tears not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

To Hermes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Hermes	case
2	Hermes	Hermes	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

To Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Death	case
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

To the gods above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 gods	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gods	det
3	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	above	above	ADV	_	3 gods	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To Grief himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	2 Grief	case
2	Grief	Grief	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Grief	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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