Exam question 1 · Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther…
In the tale of the Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther, which creature is it that the jackal eventually reaches by means of the heron's information?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal, Panther, heron · What happens: be, reach, mean, tell, inform · To what, where: creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1667 «Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther, part 56: the jackal tricks the dove, then the heron, and finds the panther's den» 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 tale | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Jackal | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Jackal | det |
| 6 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dove | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dove | det |
| 9 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Jackal | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Panther | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Panther | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Panther | det |
| 13 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 means | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creature | punct |
| 15 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 16 creature | det |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Panther | appos |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 it | cop |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 creature | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 reaches | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jackal | det |
| 21 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reaches | nsubj |
| 22 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 23 reaches | advmod |
| 23 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 creature | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 reaches | obj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 information | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heron | det |
| 28 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 information | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 heron | case |
| 30 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | the jackal | eventually property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent by=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the Panther | of the heron's information; in the tale of the Jackal and the Dove | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in tale=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | tell | the Jackal and the Dove | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | inform | the heron | nom information «communication intransitive»: poss=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
The dove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dove | det |
| 2 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The heron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heron | det |
| 2 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The old wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The panther
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 panther | det |
| 2 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1667-pg5615-part56/e1/