Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

Which bird, in the tale of the Pigeon and the Crow, is described as the greedy one, and what was the outcome of its greed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: describe, be, tell · To what, where: bird, outcome · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 described	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tale	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tale	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bird	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Pigeon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pigeon	det
9	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tale	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Crow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Crow	det
12	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Pigeon	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 described	aux:pass
15	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 one	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 described	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 outcome	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 outcome	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 outcome	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 outcome	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 outcome	det
25	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 described	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 greed	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 greed	nmod:poss
28	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 outcome	nmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which bird	as the greedy one	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as one=Attribute
2	is a	past		the outcome	of bird's greed	tree rules
3	tell		the Pigeon and the Crow			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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

The Crow, who was plucked and died groaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plucked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 plucked	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plucked	aux:pass
6	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Crow	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plucked	cc
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 died	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pluck	past · passive		the Crow	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	die	past	the Crow		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	groan	gerund	the Crow not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Crow, who was greedy and got away with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 greedy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 greedy	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 greedy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greedy	cop
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greedy	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Crow					greedy property	tree rules
2	get away	past	the Crow not said here					with Crow; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Crow, who ate worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the Crow	worms					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient

Option 4

The Pigeon, who flew away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pigeon	det
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	the Pigeon					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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