Exam question 3 · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

What did the Town Mouse's manner reveal regarding the simple meal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: manner reveal

This is exam question 3 of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
4	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mouse	compound
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reveal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mouse	case
7	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reveal	compound
8	reveal	reveal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
9	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 meal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meal	det
11	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meal	amod
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reveal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Town Mouse's manner reveal				regard the simple meal	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reveal=Eventuality
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 right answer

That she ate only out of courtesy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ate	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 courtesy	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That she secretly hated the country meal but ate it all anyway to keep her friend happy and polite.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hated	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 hated	advmod
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meal	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meal	compound
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ate	cc
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 it	det
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 ate	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ate	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friend	nmod:poss
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 keep	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 polite	cc
19	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 happy	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	That	the country meal	secretly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
2	eat	past	That not said here	meal	anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	That not said here	her friend	happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

Option 3

That she enjoyed the simple food.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 enjoyed	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enjoyed	nsubj
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 food	det
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoyed	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	That	the simple food					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus

Option 4

That she was pretending to like the plain food so that she would not hurt her friend's feelings at all.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 pretending	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretending	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 like	mark
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretending	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 food	det
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	obj
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 hurt	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hurt	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hurt	advmod
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feelings	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 friend	case
19	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hurt	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 hurt	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pretending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	That			tree rules
2	like	to-infinitive	That not said here	the plain food		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
3	not hurt	would	she	her friend's feelings	all	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient

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