Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

In what manner did the Oak respond to the hurricane described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, describe · To what, where: Oak respond, manner, hurricane, passage

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 respond	det
6	Oak	oak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 respond	amod
7	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 hurricane	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hurricane	det
10	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hurricane	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 described	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Oak respond		what manner		to the hurricane	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	describe	participle		the hurricane not said here		the passage			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

it bent and survived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 survived	cc
4	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	survive	past							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it resisted and was uprooted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resisted	nsubj
2	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 uprooted	cc
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uprooted	aux:pass
5	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 resisted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	past	it						tree rules
2	uproot	past · passive							vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

it resisted the wind and was torn out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resisted	nsubj
2	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resisted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 torn	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 torn	aux:pass
7	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 resisted	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 torn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	past	it	the wind					tree rules
2	tear out	past · passive							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»

Option 4

it held firm and fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	it					firm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past							vn occur-48.3 «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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