Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Which creature was the Owl's intended prey in the second tale of this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, passage · What happens: intend, be, tell · To what, where: intended prey, second tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prey	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prey	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Owl	det
5	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 prey	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Owl	case
7	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 prey	amod
8	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tale	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tale	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tale	amod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prey	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tale	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 prey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	intend	participle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	which creature	the Owl's intended prey	the second tale of this passage	tree rules
3	tell		this passage			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

a Dragonfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a Grasshopper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a singing Grasshopper in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Grasshopper	det
2	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Grasshopper	amod
3	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Grasshopper	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a plump Grasshopper resting on a leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Grasshopper	det
2	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Grasshopper	amod
3	Grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Grasshopper	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 leaf	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund	a plump Grasshopper not said here			a leaf			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location

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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