Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Which request did the Frogs submit to Jupiter, as recorded in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: request, Frogs · What happens: do, submit, record · To what, where: Jupiter, text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» 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 request	det
2	request	request	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 Frogs	det
5	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 submit	nsubj
6	submit	submit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Jupiter	case
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 submit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 recorded	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 recorded	mark
11	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 text	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 text	det
14	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recorded	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which request			tree rules
2	submit	present	the Frogs	Jupiter		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to jupiter=Pivot
3	record	participle	which request not said here		the text	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination

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

a petition for a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 petition	det
2	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 petition	nmod

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

Option 2

a plea for rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plea	det
2	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 rain	case
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plea	nmod

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

Option 3

a written letter of peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 peace	case
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	letter			peace					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

a request for rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 request	det
2	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 rain	case
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 request	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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