Exam question 4 · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

Which object did the hyaenas use to strike the lion's skin when they discovered the deception?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, hyaenas · What happens: do, use, strike, discover · To what, where: skin, deception

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hyaenas	det
5	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 strike	mark
8	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 lion	case
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 discovered	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 discovered	nsubj
15	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 strike	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deception	det
17	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 discovered	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which object		tree rules
2	use	present	the hyaenas		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike	to-infinitive	the hyaenas not said here	the lion's skin	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	discover	past	hyaenas = hyaena	the deception	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deception=Topic

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

A large rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirt	dirt	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.

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